I’m a fitness instructor and sobriety advocate writing about consciousness, recovery, movement, and the gap between what people promote and make money from versus what’s actually true.
I spent three decades in corporate sales despite hating every minute of it. I finally walked away to focus on what I actually care about: teaching, writing, and living deliberately in a world built on distraction.
I write essays at the intersection of recovery, fitness, philosophy, and music. Some of them are explicitly about sobriety. Some are about attention and listening. Some are about movement and aging. Some are about why craft matters more than virality.They’re all about the same thing underneath: what’s real versus what people promote because it looks or sounds good.
I studied at UC Santa Barbara and earned a Masters at Gonzaga. I've maintained a daily morning pages practice for nearly five years. I've been teaching fitness since the 1970s. I have 38 years of continuous sobriety.
None of that makes me special. It just means I've been paying attention long enough to have something to say about what I've seen. Let's face it, we're all 1 in 140,000,000 give or take. We're all unique and common.
What I’m Doing
Right now I’m focused on:
Writing essays that bridge recovery, fitness, philosophy, and culture
Teaching movement to humans over 50 who want to stay strong without wrecking themselves
Building a body of work that might eventually become a book
Speaking publicly about recovery, attention, and what it means to live with intention
I’m not building an audience to monetize. I’m not selling courses, coaching, or transformation packages. I’m writing because I have something to say and because writing clarifies thinking.
If that interests you, subscribe to the newsletter or just come back when you feel like it. There are no special offers on the way. This is not the Columbia House Record Club.
My other work:
PauseWhenAgitated.com — Recovery writing for skeptics and seekers
JimStalker.com — My central content hub
Quora — Essays read by more than half a million readers
This Substack is where I ask the questions that don’t fit neatly elsewhere—and try to answer them honestly, without rushing to conclusions.
