Writer.
Traveler.
Entrepreneur.
Author of The Piano Tuner — A Journalistic Memoir
Born and raised in Austin, 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. After college, 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. Navigating wealth, 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 the coastal rainforest of Brazil to clean my body with macrobiotic food. Eventually met my wife there on the beach.
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02
Middle East
Tahrir Square during the Egyptian revolution, repeated trips to 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 many 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, albeit compelling, at scale mostly just amplifies whatever's already there.
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04
Hawai'i
A case study for the illusion of a consumer dependent food system and the most powerful place for manifestation on Earth. While cycling the circumference of The Big Island it became my second home. 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 supernatural 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
Austin is where I was born, and over time it's meaning has evolved. It’s where I discovered the freedom of sustaining an unconventional life through piano tuning. It's where I discovered heart cenetered living through Vanessa Stone's work. But fatherhood transformed the it into something deeper: home. In the Texas Hill Country, hunting and harvesting wild game rooted me in tradition. First the launchpad. Now the landing.
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, even the non-virtuous. 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 that is poisoning our bodies and the planet. There are solutions.
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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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