About

I am most often a teacher, but finds time to be a student, poet, writer, cat parent, daughter, sister, partner, foodie, gamer, and baker. I live in Exeter, NH with my partner and three cats; 48 miles away from my mother’s grave, 50 miles away from my father, 250 miles away from my sister, more than 7,000 miles from the town of my supposed birth, and 500 miles from the city I grew up in.

I have avoided social media and having an online presence for many years. I gleefully deleted my Facebook in 2019, which was the only social media I had used that had my full name and picture, because I wanted to disappear. Social media has always seemed and advertised an impossible mix of things that are true and real now and forever with the lightness of say-what’s-on-your-mind. I hadn’t posted to my social media in years because it sometimes felt low stakes and fun to just put out a quick update to connect with people who care about me, it never was. Things written in stone, or on social media pages as it is, should be considered carefully, and at the time, I did not have too many thoughts worthy of considering nor the time to do the ones I did have any justice or value proposition to those who may want to hear about my thoughts.

The stakes of attaching anything to your name and image were then and are now higher than the tower of Babel and, like that tower, sorely in need of being brought down.

Which brings us to this website, which at the time of publishing, has my name, my full name, though it will not yet have my picture because even that feels too change-able to commit to this website, which I want to be just a collection of all of my thoughts.

Lately, I feel like I’ve had a bit more time to think and write about things. I’ve been trying to put my poetry out there to more than just the poetry editors who have sporadically spent me rejection letters as I have sporadically sent off my poems. I’m also very interested in artifical intelligence in both my personal and professional life. I’m thinking about my family and, at age 31, I’m thinking about what I will leave behind. And at last, I want to posit the distinctly small possibility that others may learn from what I write, at times be spurred to further thought and discussion, and at other times be entertained.