Will and I just got back from a long weekend trip to Santa Fe and it was a bit of a stick-and-carrot kind of trip. The stick part was because we flew to New Mexico to take their practical test to get licensed in that state.  But boy, they sure make you suffer a bit [...]

Have you ever noticed when you’re trying a little too hard? Or there’s a multitude of things going wrong all at once? This is where you have to pull your eyes from the path you’re insisting on going down to take a look at what’s going on around you. I call this Paying Attention To [...]

Yes, I know it’s “back IN the saddle” but that seems a bit weird when getting back ON the motorcycle — at least, to me it does. But now that the temperature had dropped below 90 multiple times, I finally had to grit my teeth and get on the bike. This wasn’t as bad as [...]

I’m not going to lie and say that life always go swimmingly for me, but really — does it ever for anybody? So instead of bitching (well, in addition to bitching )  there are a few websites I visit (OK, mostly every day), because occasionally there’s nothing better than checking out temporarily of your life. [...]

It’s always a pretty macho thing when you can tell people that you broke your wrist on your motorcycle — it’s so much better than saying you slipped in the tub. And I’m not lying when I say I did that —but what exactly happened that day bears repeating, if only for entertainment’s sake. The [...]

About a month ago was the deadline to submit an abstract (or two. Or three.) to this national conference for acupuncturists held in New Mexico next April. The AAAOM (American Association for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine) is a huge national organization in our field, and they were having a call for speakers, and we wanted [...]

Here’s a mind-blower of a thought — I heard, from someone who takes his time off seriously (the owner of Ten Thousand Waves in Sante Fe), that the amount of time people should be on vacation, or off, or not working, or whatever is A WEEK A MONTH, A MONTH A YEAR. I reeled at [...]