Dear Steele: If I told you that there was a type of kung fu women practice using their sex organs you would probably think I was misinformed. It might conjure up some bizarre images of deadly seductions or Asian bondage or something. It certainly wouldn’t bring to mind images of an ancient practice of healing and regeneration. Well last month …

Dear Steele: I should have kept my mouth shut. I should have stayed anonymous. I had a question and I asked it. Now I have a face. I have a voice. I have a nationality. Now they ask me the ice breaker question they ask at a writer’s workshop. “So what type of book are you writing?” I’m not writing …

Dear Steele: You are right. I ask too many damn questions. I’d like to think they are mostly intelligent, but based on the trend I’m observing in other people; they are probably mostly stupid questions. I know we were taught that there are no stupid questions, but I am now a fervent believer in the existence of stupid questions. A …

Thank you to all those supporting the R. Kirk Steele Memorial Scholarship initiative. I am really sad I couldn’t be at the launch, although I probably wouldn’t have been much company. As this is being read, I am miles away in Alaska, which is the only reason I am not there. I wrote this in my prayer book with the launch …