Notes
Notes I wanted to keep.
Essays from Houston — about the rooms I've lived in, the city that doesn't perform, and the person who has to live with what we make.
June 12, 2026
3 min
On work
The person on the other side
Most of my working life has sat between a person and something they cannot afford to get wrong: a claim, a paycheck, a day that needs to go smoothly.
April 3, 2026
3 min
On place
Houston does not perform
I live in a city that is humid, sprawling, and oddly gentle once you stop trying to rush it. That has become a kind of philosophy.
February 18, 2026
3 min
On becoming
School at night, production in the morning
I did my master's at Texas Tech while working in Los Angeles. That season still sits under everything else I have done.
November 9, 2025
3 min
On people
What I trust in a room
After nine years, my loyalty is not to a method. It is to a certain temperature of conversation — the kind where the work gets more honest, not more defended.