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Lately I’ve been reconnecting with people I knew before Salt & Flickers exploded into my life. The book debuted on December 9th, 2025 at #1 in Running Books, Poetry, Philosophy and Art Books. Fucking wild.
People who know a version of me, but maybe not all of the strange roads. Some were scenic, some were most definitely not. And really, I never stopped to sequence and connect. A few years ago, I got a little lost. Maybe more than a little. My mental health and sense of balance, and relationships to the world and myself, had meaning without gravity. I felt it all floating around me and it scared the shit out of me. Being fully aware of deep disconnection and misalignment while trudging forward as a writer, runner, Dad and dude was draining.
But as an endurance athlete, the therapy started to stack together like a training plan. Apparently, my brain responds better to metaphors and whims involving cool running shoes and centuries old suffering. That was the inertia I needed. Gravity is nothing without it.
I stepped away from my normal lane as a writer in the film, TV and comedy world and Salt & Flickers was born and it's been a wild ride.
The book. The podcast. The Substack. The running. The people at all the run clubs, book stores, roadside diners, tattoo shops, airports. Anonymity is oddly medicinal.
And now, breaking news, I have a screenplay pulled from the book making its way into the world. Its Past Lives meets Before Sunrise meets The Natural, following Rochelle Banks, a marathon phenom who mysteriously disappeared from the global stage connecting with a lost-souled writer on an afternoon in LA.
The bones came from two other romantic dramedies I started up over the past few years but once I got the right amount of space and signals from the universe that I was creatively on my own with this, the screenplay came into focus. I'm writing from pre-dawn to sunrise, daily and in ways I never have before.
I'm starting to feel whole again. Like I’m finally gathering the pieces of my head and heart back into the same room. But do not mistake it for enlightened, it's my version of being less scattered and strewn across the forever roads and boundless skies of LA.
So today on the pod, runner/artist Scout Zabinski interviewed me. I went in with no idea what the questions would be and where it would go. Just presence with a person I respect and trust. And as I'm writing this, I haven't listened to the edit of the episode. Curious to hear what we said.
In its most sobering moments, life is trippy.
You can find the book, podcast, Substack and everything else at saltandflickers.com.
And I’ll be in London September 4 and 5 for Like The Wind’s first Run Culture: LIVE at Boiler House. Runners, artists, filmmakers, musicians and rebels from all over running culture come together for panels, films, music and making things together.
If you’re in London, let's connect or go for a run.
Okay. Scout, ask me something.
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