Living in a Body

Hi. I’m Hal and this is “ Living in a Body .” Welcome! To hear me narrate the story, please click the “Listen Now” button above . (5 minute listen) Also, please help this community grow by sharing this episode with one friend. Thank you! Hal The Nemesis Triangle I know. The past is history, the future is a mystery and the present is a gift. If you know anything about my story, you know that the pr...

Hi. I’m Hal and this is “ Living in a Body .” Welcome! To hear me narrate the story, please click the “Listen Now” button above . (8 minute listen) Also, would you consider helping me by sharing this episode with one friend? Thank you! Hal 101.5°F To be honest, I’d rather be writing a publication called, “Low Key Gliding — Hal Walker Tours the World Playing the Khaen at Every College Campus from S...

Hi. This week I’m celebrating two milestones for this publication: 20 episodes and 500 subscribers. Yay! If you look forward to reading “ Living in a Body ” every week, I hope you’ll consider becoming a paid subscriber. Due to my health, I’ll be taking some weeks off this summer, but hopefully there are more episodes in there somewhere. Thank you!! Living in a Body is a reader-supported publicatio...

Hi. I’d love your feedback on something. This week, for the first time, I’m posting the audio without a musical background. Do you prefer to listen to me read with musical background or without musical background. I’m just wondering if you find the music at all distracting. Please let me know in the comments! To hear me narrate the story now, please click the play button . (9 minute listen) Coldpl...

Hi. I’m Hal and this is “ Living in a Body .” Welcome! To hear me narrate the story with original music, please click the play button . (12 minute listen) Also, please help this community grow by sharing this episode with one friend. Thank you! Hal Chronic Joy Sure, I love crying and sure, the life that I once knew has been decimated by the onset of severe chronic illness. But actually, I’m a real...

Hi. I’m Hal and this is “ Living in a Body .” Welcome! To hear me narrate the story with music, please click the play button . (9 minute listen) Also, would you do me one more favor? Please share this episode with one friend. Thank you! Hal Black Gold In my household, throwing an egg shell into the trash is considered a crime.  Back when Hallie lived here, every once in a while, I’d peek into the...

Hi. I’m Hal. I’m still living in a body and this is still “ Living in a Body .” Welcome! To hear me narrate the story with music and to support my work, please click the play button . (11 minute listen) Thank you for being here. I appreciate you. Hal Who the Heck is Jamie?! (Press Play) My mom refers to herself as a seeker. I guess that’s what I am, too. At the age of 56, you’d hope that I would’v...

Hi. I’m Hal. I live in a body and this is “ Living in a Body .” Welcome! To hear me narrate the story with original music, click the play button . (12 minute listen) Thank you for being here. I appreciate you. Hal The Helpers My dad used to always say that the antidote for feeling down and depressed is to visit the “sick and the suffering.” I never got to ask him, “But Dad, what if you are the sic...

Hi. I’m Hal. I live in a body and this is “ Living in a Body .” If you live in a body too, I’d like to welcome you here. To hear me narrate the story with original harp music, click the play button . (6 minute listen) Thank you for your attention. I appreciate you. Hal Hal the Imaginary Harpist (Press Play Above) I’ve made a few questionable purchases in my life. Every once in a while, the thought...

Hi. I’m Hal. I live in a body and this is “ Living in a Body .” If you live in a body too, I’d like to welcome you here. To hear me narrate the story, click the play button . (14 minute listen) Thank you for your attention. I appreciate you. Hal Two Weeks Off TikTok I keep checking my phone in search of something and there’s nothing there. Two weeks ago, I hit an emotional bottom. I’m going throug...

Hi. It’s been one more week of living in a body and this is “ Living in a Body. ” My dad (no longer living) “shares the microphone” with me today. Please click the play button to hear Rev. Harold Walker Jr. and me narrate with original music. (15 min) Thank you so much ~ Hal This week’s episode is a little different. I wrote this piece many years ago for a Sunday Service at the Unitarian-Universal...

Hi. It’s been another week of living in a body and this is “ Living in a Body. ” My dear mother is my guest writer today! Please click the play button to hear mom and me narrate the story with original music. (11 min) Thank you so much ~ Hal A Green Beer Miracle I love the creative process… especially when it works in my favor. Living with severe chronic illness, I’m not particularly fond of my cu...

I have exciting news to share: You can now read Living in a Body in the new Substack app for iPhone. With the app, you’ll have a dedicated Inbox for my Substack and any others you subscribe to. New posts will never get lost in your email filters, or stuck in spam. Longer posts will never cut-off by your email app. Comments and rich media will all work seamlessly. Overall, it’s a big upgrade to the...

Hi. It’s my birthday and this is “ Living in a Body. ” Please click the play button to hear me narrate the story with original music. (12 min) Thank you so much ~ Hal Bonus Life The guy standing 18 inches away from me didn’t survive. One moment, Ash and I were standing right next to each other on a bridge of black lava. We stood in awe as the waves crashed beneath us into a turbulent pool of wild...

Hi. It’s Saturday and this is “ Living in a Body. ” Please click the play button to hear me narrate the story with original piano music. (a 10 minute listen) ~ Hal If you like what I write, I hope you’ll share this publication with one friend. Thanks! Stolen Quarters You're gonna find out sooner or later, so we may as well have this conversation now.  I'm an addict. I spent many years in active ad...

Hi. I’m Hal. It’s Saturday and this is “ Living in a Body. ” Please click the play button to hear me narrate the story with original piano music. (9 minutes) No Flex Man, I wish I’d taken some more photos of my biceps before all this craziness started happening.  I’ve always been a skinny guy, but I had some nice biceps.  In fact, I had a special liking for my biceps.  Every once in a while, I’d s...

Hi. It’s Saturday. I’m Hal and this is my book-in-progress “ Living in a Body. ” Help build this community by clicking the PLAY button above. If you enjoy what I write, please share this with one friend. Thank you! Hal Episode 6 - Bringing Down the Norwegian (Press PLAY ) For years, I resisted the temptation to cut the tree down. I mean it was a Norway Spruce. Half my family is Norwegian. My dog N...

Hi! “ Living in a Body ” is now available as a PODCAST. Click the play button above to listen. (10 min. Exactly) Hal Trigger Warning: This episode mentions calls to a crisis hotline and uses the F-word twice. Ep. 5 - I Love Crying (Press Play) I  don’t remember exactly how the story goes but it’s stuck in my memory as being important. It was a hot summer day and I was driving home from Aldi in Sto...

Hi. I’m Hal. I send out this jam-packed “newsletter” every Saturday morning and a much smaller version every Tuesday morning. If you know someone who might like to join the “Living in a Body” community, please pass it on. Let the stories unfold. ❤️ H Flippant Hal, the Golden Son Sometimes in my writing I get a little flippant and to be honest, I kinda like it.  I'm the only son of a Presbyterian m...

Hi. I’m Hal. You choose. Read, listen or listen while you read. Join me here every Saturday morning. Let the stories unfold. ❤️ H Sudden Onset, 1992 (Push Play to begin) The main thing I learned from four years as a history major at Northwestern University is that I wasn't meant to be a history major. My dad (Rev. Harold Walker Jr.) was a thinker and he had a strong passion for the liberal arts . ...