I have been teaching fitness since the 1970s and writing seriously for the past five years. Before that, I spent more than three decades in corporate sales, long enough to develop a reliable detector for the gap between what people promote and what is actually true.
That gap is what Tell the Truth and Run explores.
I write about culture, music, dogs, aging, attention, loss, craft, and the small moments that reveal what matters. Those subjects may not belong together on a shelf, but they keep returning to the same questions: What is real? What is performance? What deserves our limited time?
Some essays begin with a song. Some begin with a dog, a memory, or something I noticed while trying to move through the day with a little more awareness. The subject changes. The effort does not.
I have written daily morning pages for nearly five years. I earned a master’s degree from Gonzaga, reached a large audience on Quora, and maintained a long relationship with WordPress. Those facts do not make the writing important. They simply mean I have practiced paying attention and putting what I notice into words.
There is no paywall here. No courses, coaching, transformation packages, or special offers. I am not building an audience to monetize it. I write because writing clarifies thought, and because some things deserve to be said plainly.
You do not need to subscribe. Bookmark the site, return when you feel like it, or read one essay and move on. This is not the Columbia House Record Club.
Other work:
Jim Stalker Fitness
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