About Me
I’m a Stoic practitioner obsessed with clarity.
It all began when I was five and I freaked out because my kindergarten teacher left the room. I tried to escape, but some twenty children built a human wall to stop me—that’s my earliest memory.
The fun stuff didn't start until I was 11, when I learned my first guitar chords. Soon after, I started playing the violin, which eventually became my profession.
I moved to Albuquerque, NM, when I was 23, and it has become my favorite place in the world.
At 28, I moved to Germany. But it wasn’t until I was 35 that I found the Stoics. At 37, I started foil fencing, and last year, at 39, I joined a Tai Chi group that follows the Patrick Kelly tradition.
Shortly before turning 40, I decided that my last meal as a thirty-something was going to be a molten cake from Chili’s. That was wonderful.
I was expecting a midlife crisis, but astrology tells me it won’t happen until I’m 42. In any case, I enjoy writing posts and essays as a way to find clarity, and that’s what I intend to do here. I hope you feel inclined to subscribe and stay in touch.
Some of my work (External Links):
In this photo I’m with my mentor and friend, Erik Wiegardt — founder of the College of Stoic Philosophers, current abbot of our Stoic Monastery, and Headmaster of the College of Posidonius.
The essays in this section were written some time ago. I don’t necessarily agree with everything I wrote then, but they were part of the path that brought me here.
For that reason, they belong on this shelf.
Erik is the author of: The Eternal Questions Website