Life & Becoming
This Is Me Before
Before I go somewhere new, I wonder who I’ll be when I come home. Alaska had been on my bucket list for as long as I can remember. I knew it would be beautiful. I wasn’t prepared for what I would bring home.
Life & Becoming
Personal stories about becoming, changing direction, living with questions, and discovering that very little goes according to the original plan.
Life & Becoming
I Have Questions
One question becomes seven browser tabs, several unexpected stories, and a reminder that curiosity can change more than what we know.
Life & Becoming
I Thought I’d Have This Figured Out By Now
A suitcase, several rooms, and a life that refused to follow the original itinerary raise a familiar question: Shouldn’t I have figured this out by now?
Life & Becoming
I Wasn't Going to Make This Complicated
“This will only take a few minutes” is a promise I continue making despite considerable evidence that neither simplicity nor time works that way around me.
Life & Becoming
By the Time We Notice
The moments that change us rarely arrive with dramatic music. Sometimes they look exactly like every other Tuesday until we finally notice what has shifted.
Life & Becoming
The Long Way Home
Four rooms, a lifetime of ordinary moments, and the people who filled them reveal that home may not be something we find on a map.
Life & Becoming
An Invitation
A childhood memory of the Enterprise begins a journey through Star Trek, representation, and the future that quietly invited me to imagine more for myself.
Life & Becoming
The Future I Couldn’t Imagine
A quiet Saturday morning leads me back to the future I once expected and the life I could not have imagined from where I was standing.
Life & Becoming
More Than One Thing
Musician, writer, podcaster, coffee enthusiast, dog lover, and unapologetic nerd. What happens when a life refuses to fit inside one convenient description?
Life & Becoming
The Path I Almost Didn’t Choose
I once believed my future could be found on a college schedule. Then one unexpected choice opened a path I had not planned to take.
Life & Becoming
I Was Always Here
An old family photograph captures a version of me who seems both familiar and distant, raising questions about identity, memory, and who we were becoming all along.
Life & Becoming
The B Major Problem
Standing on a chair with a saxophone taught me that sometimes the ability is already there. What needs to change is the perspective standing in its way.