Welcome to my website! I designed the site to be a living resume/CV/Portfolio of my professional and creative skills and achievements. I have had a few friends ask me why I am including a blog on the site. My answer to them was simple, but the more I got to thinking about the question, the less simple my answer became, so I thought I would explain it in my first blog post on the site.

A blog isn’t just a part of your portfolio. It is your portfolio. It shows who you are, not just what you do. Here, the pieces range from creative nonfiction to poetry, photography, reflections on music and writing, and more. Each post is a thread in a larger story about my identity as both a creative and a critical thinker.

My blog is the most honest part of my site. It’s where the work and the thinking behind the work meet. I’m not writing it to build an audience or chase clicks. I’m writing it because it helps me see what I’m doing and where I’m going.

I work in different forms. Sometimes I’m writing, sometimes I’m making images. The blog holds all of it together. It’s the connective thread. A place where music and poetry and photography don’t need to be sorted into categories. They can just sit next to each other and make sense.

A blog is different from a gallery or a polished portfolio. Those are about finished things. The blog lets me show the in-between. The stuff that’s half-formed or personal or too rough for anywhere else. It’s where I can write about a show I saw or a photo I took and not have to explain why it matters. It matters because it’s part of what shapes the rest.

I like that it can evolve. That nothing is fixed. I might post a concert review one week and a short reflection on silence the next. I might go quiet for a while and come back when I have something to say. It’s not content. It’s a practice. And I trust that if I keep showing up to it, something real will come out of it.

Professionally, the blog helps in ways I didn’t plan. People who end up on my site can see what I care about. They see how I write when no one is assigning me anything. They see what I notice, what I avoid, what I return to. It’s not a sales pitch. It’s just a clear record of how I think.

That’s why the blog is here. It’s not extra. It’s central. It ties together everything else on the site and gives it context. It’s where the creative work and the critical thinking show up side by side. If the rest of the site is the resume, this is the margin where I’m still writing notes. I hope you get as much enjoyment from reading it as I do from writing it.