Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you want to know about the Tumbleweed Diaries, Arvid Paul Croonquist, and the stories behind the stories.

The Tumbleweed Diaries is a storytelling project written from the road — from an Airstream trailer and a life fully lived. It's a collection of honest, gut-level stories about life, responsibility, accountability, spirituality, the human ego, and the instincts that drive us. Written by Arvid Paul Croonquist, these are not polished memoirs. They are raw dispatches from a man walking off a long battlefield and finding his voice on the other side.

Arvid is a writer, storyteller, mentor, and coach. He spent 25 years building and running Aloha Moving before selling the business and turning toward what he always was underneath — a storyteller. He is 39 years sober, a cancer survivor in full remission, and a man who came to writing after discovering he had dyslexia, dysgraphia, aphantasia, and anauralia. He writes from feeling, not from memory. From the gut, not the page.

It means showing up in the pause. Between the exhale of what was hard and the inhale of what comes next — that's where Arvid lives and writes. Not in denial of the darkness, but in the deliberate choice to keep going anyway. His work is honest about pain, guilt, shame, and struggle. And it is relentlessly hopeful. That combination is the voice.

Every story circles back to the same core territory: life and how we actually live it. Responsibility and what it costs us when we avoid it. Accountability as a practice, not a punishment. Spirituality as something personal and earned, not handed down. The human ego and the stories it tells us to keep us safe — and small. And the raw, unfiltered instincts that speak the truth our minds won't. These are the voices that show up in every piece.

Yes. Arvid works with people who are in the middle of reinventing themselves — those who feel like they've been playing a role that doesn't fit, or carrying shame they never earned. His coaching is rooted in his own hard-won experience with sobriety, survival, neurodivergence, and the long walk toward an honest life. It is not clinical. It is human, direct, and grounded in story.

It's for anyone who has ever felt like a fictional character in a factual life. For the people who've been doing their best on a battlefield nobody else could see. For the tumbleweed warriors — worn and tattered and still moving, still hopeful, still here.