I get fired up for New Year’s Eve. I love it when that big stupid ball drops and zeros out the previous year. No more victories, no more defeats, just a blank slate. December thirty-first is an evening of reflection; January first is a day of dreams, plans and determination. I make New Year’s resolutions [...]
There are two cinder blocks standing side by side on a scrap of carpet at the front of Galli’s Fighting Chance, a karate school in Pennsylvania. An instructor gently lowers a one-and-a-half inch thick cinder cap onto the blocks. School-bus-yellow number two pencils are placed at each end of the cinder cap to act as [...]