A Question About fourteen days a year the fog takes a vacation and the sun shines a few rays on Golden Gate Park. Besides forestalling a few diagnoses of seasonal affective disorder, this phenomenon triggers a veritable explosion of joggers that resembles emergence of the seventeen-year cicada in the eastern United States. Watching these curious […]

A Question When I was sixteen I took Hapkido every day for two weeks with my brothers. It was a two week promotional offer which met our fiduciary capacity at the time. I still remember most of what I learned in those two weeks. My brothers and I were especially enthralled with a leg stretching […]

A Question How often have you heard someone say that their knees are worn out from years of exercise? The idea that the knees can just wear out from use seems quite intuitive. After all, this is what happens to the myriad of machines we use throughout our lives. Bicycles, cars and blenders all wear […]

A Question My childhood experiences with ritualized, organized war games, that is to say sports (namely football and wrestling) were initiated with a particularly peculiar ritual called stretching. To the alien anthropologist these behaviors could have been interpreted as a supplication to the divine powers for assistance in the upcoming skirmish, and indeed maybe they […]