About Me

I have spent much of my life moving between worlds that are not usually placed beside one another.

I drove a truck over the road. I helped operate a large hay farm and show barn. I managed construction and design projects. Later, I moved into technology, organizational improvement, program management, agile coaching, and knowledge systems.

Alongside that work, I have always been documenting.

I photographed horses, farms, dogs, people, old buildings, working rituals, and the places that became part of my life. I saved family records and fragments of stories before I fully understood what they might become. I wrote privately, then returned to public writing when I was ready to understand my own experience more clearly.

The mediums change, but the impulse is consistent: pay attention, find the pattern, and make something useful or lasting from what I notice.

I tend to begin with something concrete.

A photograph.
A family record.
An animal I loved.
A complicated problem at work.
A question that will not leave me alone.
A material I want to shape with my hands.

From there, I look for the larger structure.

Sometimes that becomes an essay or documentary project. Sometimes it becomes a framework, a digital system, or a practical tool. Sometimes it becomes a physical object.

I am most interested in work that helps people see more clearly—whether that means understanding a life, organizing knowledge, navigating complexity, or recognizing the meaning inside an ordinary experience.

My current creative work includes personal essays, Halo’s Legacy, Finding Marcel, and Maryland Horse Life.

My framework work explores personal knowledge systems, context architecture, applied AI, and better ways to organize complex work.

My things work begins with crochet bags and handmade objects, but it is also a place for experiments that grow from the larger creative worlds behind them.

Not every project is finished. Some are active, some are still being researched, and some are only beginning to reveal their shape. This site is meant to show the work honestly as it develops.

I live in rural Maryland with my husband, Jeff, and our dogs.

Animals, farms, working landscapes, and the people connected to them have shaped much of the way I understand loyalty, grief, responsibility, leadership, and belonging. Horses gave me access to places and communities I might never have known otherwise. My dogs changed the emotional architecture of my life.

Those relationships are not separate from my work. They are part of its foundation.

I believe a meaningful life leaves evidence: photographs, stories, objects, systems, places, and traces of care. Much of what I make is an attempt to notice that evidence before it disappears.