Writer.
Traveler.
Entrepreneur.
Author of The Piano Tuner — A Journalistic Memoir
I was raised in Austin, where early labels tried to define me before I had the language to question them. I was diagnosed with ADD in second grade and subsequently medicated with amphetimines throughout my youth. I moved through school less by structure than by instinct—following curiosity wherever it pulled, even when it didn’t make sense on paper. Years later, I sold my car, bought a handful of one-way tickets, and stepped into a life without a fixed map. What followed wasn’t a straight line but a long, winding immersion into places, people, and perspectives that reshaped how I saw the world—and myself. It took me nearly a decade to put that journey into words, not because it was unclear, but because it was still unfolding.
The parts of you that never quite fit may be the very parts that lead you somewhere extraordinary.— The Piano Tuner, Preface
Travel
redefined my life
Travel didn’t begin for me as escape—it began as a slow undoing. For most of my early life, I was moving inside frameworks I didn’t choose: diagnosed in childhood, medicated before I had language for consent, learning to navigate expectations that never quite fit. It wasn’t until I found myself in Spain, away from everything familiar, that something loosened. I realized I didn’t need what I had been told I couldn’t live without. From there, leaving wasn’t rebellion. It was clarity. I stopped trying to become the version of me I had been handed, and started moving toward something I didn’t yet understand.
Over time, the movement stopped feeling external and started becoming internal. Cycling through Hawai‘i, walking pilgrimage routes in Italy, navigating love, birth, loss, and uncertainty across borders—I began to see that each place was not separate from me, but a reflection of something unfolding within me. Travel redefined my life by dissolving the idea that I was fixed in any one identity, story, or location. It taught me that home was never a place I came from or returned to, but something I carried forward—quietly rebuilt, moment by moment, wherever I happened to be.
Each stop a classroom. None of them planned.
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Brazil
Where it started. Samba in Lapa, a month in Trindade, and years later — an Ayahuasca ceremony in a jungle clearing that changed the question. I spent a decade returning to Brazil and eventually met my wife on the beach.
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02
Middle East
Tahrir Square during the Egyptian revolution, conlict in the West Bank, inspiration in Beirut. I went as a journalist and came back knowing that wasn't the right word, seeing order out of chaos as an infinite reccurence.
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03
China
Taught english to all walks of life in Shanghai, ended up dating one of my students who turned out to be heir to one of wealthiest families in the country. Learned that money at scale mostly just amplifies whatever's already there.
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Hawai'i
The exit point for all of earth's energy. I discovered this while cycling the circumference of The Big Island. I've learned so much from that place I can't put it into words. It is the most powerful location on earth to manifest one's present vision. Slow down, ask for what you want, careful what you ask for.
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Italy
Walked the Camino di Assisi with a woman I barely knew only to discover she was the mother of my child. A ball of light circled the dormitory at midnight in the Franciscan sanctuary of La Verna. We both saw it. Our lives were forever changed.
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Austin, TX
Always the launchpad. Now the landing. Hunting and harvesting wild game in the Texas Hill Country became my lifeline for nourishment and recconnection. Home is tradition.
A few things
I actually believe
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Life moves in spheres, not lines
I spent years thinking in cause and effect. Good and bad. Success and failure. Linear thinking is a limitation — it flattens what is, in fact, spherical. The same fears and loves come back around in new disguises. Once you start seeing the cycles in your own story, you stop fighting them.
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You are God
Not in an egoic way. In the way a wave is the ocean. God is nature. You are nature. Underneath all of it — the noise, the damage, the stories we tell — the core of every human being is love. This much I'm sure of.
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Food is medicine
I healed myself through macrobiotics. I'm now an avid hunter and live primarily on wild game I havested myself. Our dependence on the industrial food system is largely a choice. An uninformed one.
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You are not confined to the story you were given
I stopped taking amphetamines while studying abroad in Spain. Not as a statement — out of curiosity. What I found on the other side of that wasn't disorder. It was myself. The label had been the loudest thing in the room for twenty years, and the room was fine without it.
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