Words

  • The Thing In The Air

    There is a moment — you know the one — where someone says something and the whole room shifts. Not dramatically. Nobody gasps. The conversation keeps moving. But something entered… Read more

  • The Weirdest Combination of Self Awareness and Oblivion

    I want to tell you something about how I move through the world, but I want to be honest upfront that I am not sure I can describe it accurately.… Read more

  • I Trust You To Process This With Me

    There are two very different things that get called trust, and I have spent most of my adult life confusing them. The first is the kind that means: I believe… Read more

  • The Drinking Laws of Texas and Other Things I Learned by Driving Away

    When I turned twenty, I was allowed to drink in Texas because I was given permission by my spouse, which was on the law books back then. My spouse was… Read more

  • Not Every Hike Has to be The Hike

    My son’s friend fell recently while hiking in St. George. Broke a few bones, will be okay. It got us talking about hiking, about clumsiness — timely, because the cupboard… Read more

  • God Is As Comically Inclined As I Had Suspected

    My mom wanted to make sure I knew that Satan is a fallen angel. In case I didn’t know that part. I did know that part. His name, I told… Read more

  • Plan B Zucchini

    For an idyllic couple weeks several years ago, my mom cooked the meals on weekdays. I cooked on the weekends. The kids get dinner faster. It is, as I described… Read more

  • The Chart is the Dirty Rug

    There is a specific kind of satisfaction that pressure washing delivers that has nothing to do with clean. It is the satisfaction of visible, immediate, measurable progress. You can see… Read more

  • AI Blind Spots

    At the start of 2024, I bought the wrong year planner. I want to tell you this because I think it’s the most honest possible beginning to a piece about… Read more

  • Generational Cringe

    I would have been horrified. I want to be clear about that before I say anything else. If my mother had a podcast — if she had a show, a… Read more

Who and What

Former teacher. Lifelong writer. Cultural anthropologist of my own life. Mixed content for people whose papers are also strewn about.

I’ve been sitting outside writing for as long as I can remember. I tried different things with an open mind at different stages of life and wrote notes, kept receipts, and have pictures to prove it.

This is where I put all of it: words, process, life, and whatever’s aging well. Overrated? Underrated? Curated and spell checked for damn sure.

The niche isn’t for me to limit myself down to. You’re here in the world I’ve long had in my mind.

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