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Writing

Essays, short fiction, and longer-form explorations of ideas that matter. Mostly about attention, place, and how things work.

01

On Attention

Essay

What does it mean to pay attention in an era engineered for distraction? A personal investigation into slowness, observation, and the cost of presence.

March 2024·2,400 words
02

The Cartographer's Daughter

Short Fiction

A short story about maps, inheritance, and the places we carry inside us long after we've left them. Set in the Pacific Northwest.

January 2024·4,800 words
03

Software and the Craft Analogy

Essay

Code is often described as craft — but what would it mean to treat it like one seriously? An exploration of patience, mastery, and the slow loop.

November 2023·1,800 words
04

Threshold States

Personal Essay

On the psychological experience of arriving somewhere new — the liminal months before a place becomes familiar, and what we notice then that we never do again.

September 2023·3,200 words
05

Forty Conversations at Pike Place

Creative Nonfiction

A year of visiting the market every weekend, notebook in hand. Forty overheard fragments assembled into an accidental portrait of a city.

July 2023·5,500 words
06

The Weather Report

Short Fiction

A meteorologist begins predicting weather that hasn't happened yet — or perhaps already has. A quiet story about certainty and its limits.

May 2023·2,100 words
07

In Praise of Friction

Essay

Against seamlessness. An argument for the value of difficulty, roughness, and the slight delay between intention and action.

March 2023·1,600 words
08

Green Water, Blue Sky

Personal Essay

A childhood memory of Puget Sound, revisited from adulthood. On how the body holds place and what returns when you go back.

January 2023·2,900 words