So here’s another image from our fine calendar. (the color picture, not the other one) This is the valley of the Neckar River from the Hornberg— not the Hornburg (Horn Fort), which is in Lord of the Rings, but the Hornberg (Horn Mountain), which despite being identified as a mountain was in fact the castle […]

This last weekend I helped to test and graduate a few dozen new black belts for my karate school. Some very impressive martial arts were performed— none, it must be admitted, by me. In addition to the physical aspects of kenpo, our students are required to acquaint themselves with martial arts classics such as Sun […]

Another photo from our 2008 calendar, this of Chambord, a royal chateau in the Loire Valley. We encountered Chambord in the autumn of 2004, as we drove along the Loire Valley from Paris to Nantes, where I was a guest at Utopiales, their annual convention. Chambord was built by Francois I, a contemporary of Henry […]

(courtesy of Kathy) SOCORRO – “Lights, cameras, and action!” The casting call may soon be given for the New Mexico Tech campus to become a real-life movie set for a planned cable television series about the day-to-day operations of a research university. Van Romero, New Mexico Tech vice president for research and economic development, briefed […]