Photos from Bay Area, Summer 2025

Northern California, Fall 2025

Photos from Istanbul, Turkey- February and March 2025

Sequoia National Park October 2024

Calibrating the Three Levers of Self-Loathing, Self-Love, and Self Discovery

Two years ago, a moment of acute and somehow enduring heartache became the unlikely catalyst for the most radical physical transformation of my life. It wasn’t a single decision but the activation of a strange, powerful engine fueled by three levers: self-loathing, self-love, and self-discovery. Through no conscious effort of my own...

Playground by Richard Powers

Seven Essential Quotes Fifteen minutes after their brief service, Ina’s daughter was skipping down to the waves again, finding new jewels, as if death by plastic ingestion were just another inscrutable myth, as mysterious as a god huddled up in a spinning egg before the beginning of the world. One continuous war game between the two of...

Photos from the Camino de Santiago, October 2015

Looking at these photos certainly inspires me to return for another Camino, both for the experience of meeting people from all over the world and of taking photographs now that I know how to use a camera. A lot of these are pretty rough, but it’s also fair to say that cellphone camera technology was not quite as good nine years ago...