On a whim…

I was born in Georgia and educated in South Carolina, Kentucky, and Boston. I spent several years in the U.S. Navy, followed by fifteen years as a minister, and later worked as an information systems architect. I am now writing full time. These lives were not planned as a sequence, but they have shaped how I attend to people, language, and systems—human and otherwise.

I write because I’m curious about what happens when attention is given time. Much of my work begins without an outline. Letting my pen wander across paper feels a bit like dowsing: I don’t always know what I’m looking for, but I trust that something honest will surface if I stay still long enough.

My writing tends toward memory, faith, and the quiet mechanics of relationship—how people speak, what they withhold, and what it costs to listen well. I’m less interested in argument than in presence, and less drawn to conclusions than to the moment just before them. I’m attentive to language that refines rather than scorches, that names difference without needing to conquer it.

I’m currently working on long-form fiction and nonfiction that explore love, silence, loss, and the slow recovery of voice. Alongside that work, I write shorter reflections and essays—often provisional, often exploratory—meant to be read without haste.

This site is a place to gather those pieces. If something here meets you—provokes, steadies, unsettles, or clarifies—I’m glad. That kind of recognition is enough reason to keep writing.