My nine-year-old who has hated karate since we joined...well "hate" is too strong, he likes getting promoted, he just dislikes doing everything one needs to do in order to get promoted. Anyway, he has whined and/or thrown a temper-tantrum prior to almost every karate class he's attended. That is until the last month or so.

Last night he decides he loves karate, he can't get enough of it. In fact, he loves it so much that he wants to share his love for the martial art with other karate kids throughout the world.

How is he going to share the love? He wants to write two karate books: "Gup Goodies" and "Dan Doings." He's really jazzed about "Gup Goodies." He started jotting down ideas he has for the book when we got home from karate last night. He's a little worried about how he's going to know what to put in "Dan Doings" but he's pretty sure Sa Bum Nim will be so wowed by his book ideas that he'll help fill in the information gaps. He also knows about a web site that will turn his English written books into Korean...yeah, I know, but he's nine, the concept of linguistic complexities is beyond his ability to comprehend.

The most bizarre thing about this is that I think this has all come about over the last few weeks because of the love he has for a certain green belt (soon-to-be red belt) who is, let's see, more than 20 years his senior.