Rolfing isn’t Lol-fing or Roll-fin

I took the first rolfing session in my life. I had heard about it (trivia: the Japanese novelist Yoshimoto Banana’s husband is a rolfer) but never tried it, because…here I am in Taiwan, the home of Chinese medicine and qigong, and the idea of trying a Western practice...

A Mobius ring or a wire puzzle

A baby boomer gentleman apologizes for being a baby boomer and shares his thoughts on why they had become…them (he doesn’t know). Probably this is one of the most heart-felt confessions I have heard in years. I almost wished my father be this guy. So let me apologize...

The side view of social blindness

The news related to food these days is simply weird. On one hand, genetically enhanced corn and its derivatives are flooding our households with nutritiously poor but surely inexpensive food. All right, we have enough to feed everybody. http://youtu.be/CNENeM4LPh4 On...

It isn’t about you

The following is what I say to a younger version of myself, who had no idea how to live his life, but was desperately looking for an answer. 1. Everybody wants to give advice on how to live And I mean, literally, every, single, one. Just ask anybody that you are...

Class is out. Forever.

More people are classifying themselves as lower class. The news is from the US but it applies to everywhere in the developed world, as we are all painfully aware of. Roquemore is among the small but surging share of Americans who identify themselves as “lower...