Fact Check Me: Unsolicited Wisdom, From a Questionable Source!

A journal of honesty, humor, and hard-won perspective

Hi, I’m Eric — or as a few people around my dojo call me, Kyoshi.

I’m a teacher, a father, a lifelong student, and a guy who still believes stories can save people.

And it’s all true — or at least I think so.

I’ve never been great at taking notes or remembering things exactly the way they happened, so if you ever question what I write or don’t quite agree, my answer will always be the same:

Fact Check Me.

For most of my life, my head was full of stories.
But it wasn’t until I hit forty-seven that I started to really see them — clearly, stripped of all the noise, the excuses, the fear, and all the things that hold us back.

It’s like waking up one day and realizing the world hasn’t changed — you have.
You start to see the patterns, the lessons, the beauty in the details.

That’s what Fact Check Me is about.

It’s not a blog. It’s not a newsletter.
It’s a living conversation — a space where I write, think, and occasionally make a mess of both.

I talk about growth, fatherhood, teaching, purpose, art, and the strange in-between moments that make life real.
Some of it’s funny. Some of it’s heavy.
All of it’s honest.

I’ve lived a few lives — martial artist, teacher, cancer survivor, storyteller.
If there’s a thread running through them all, it’s that I’ve spent my life helping people find their strength — sometimes on the mat, sometimes in the mirror, and now, here on the page.

I don’t pretend to have the answers.
But I’ve got stories — and I think that’s a good place to start.

If something here makes you stop and think, or laugh, or feel a little less alone, then this space is doing what it’s meant to do.

And if you ever disagree with me — good.
You know what to do.

🔥 Fact Check Me.