Why Me?  

I have the verifiable integrity, teaching and learning skills, compassion, accomplishments, experiences, understanding, and drive to help you safely grow healthier physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially into a better life. I’ve spent my life working to improve myself and it’s time I pay it forward by helping you do the same.

I have many Letters of Recommendation and Reference from people who know I can help you because they have seen how I positively influence people to better their health.

Here are some related experiences, accomplishments, positions, and training that make me qualified to help you:

• Teaching grades 8 through 12 English Language Arts and other ages and subjects, including all subjects to severely emotionally disturbed students in court-ordered placement, since 1989 (mostly in the Jurupa Unified School District)

• Practicing and teaching martial arts since 1980 (teaching adults and kids as young as 5 including special needs students at the Redlands YMCA since 2015); Vice Chairman of the Golden Dragon Kyokushinkai School of Karate

• CPR and First Aid–trained and certified yearly through the Redlands YMCA since 2015

• Circus arts practitioner and performer since 2022 (pyramid acrobatics, flexibility and tumbling) in the Great All-American Youth Circus at the Redlands YMCA

• Improved my health enough to stop taking blood pressure medication after 9 years at 59 years old with a strong family history of hypertension

• Master’s degree in Education and Bachelor’s degree in English

• Lifetime of studying and practicing health, fitness, psychology, and nutrition

• Elected president of NEA-Jurupa teacher's union for a 2-year term after serving as bargaining team negotiations chair for 3 years (2014-2019)