Writing

Stories, essays, and observations about the things that stay with me. I've been making things my whole life — music, websites, art projects, games — and lately I've been writing some of it down. These pieces tend to circle the same few things that animate me: memory, curiosity, and the small moments that quietly turn out to matter. Some are about music, some about technology, some about a feeling I couldn't quite name until I sat down and tried. Pull one off the shelf and see where it goes.

When the Web Was Young

The Web wasn't always an institution. There was a time you could stumble into it, take it apart, and help build it. On learning HTML by breaking other people's pages, stumbling into a career, and going looking, decades later, for the pages that vanished.

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Hearthglow

The comfort of knowing that somewhere just beyond your view, another life is unfolding. A photograph of warm light through a backyard fence leads to a childhood memory and an attempt to find a word for the quiet reassurance of other people's lives happening nearby.

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The Album My Sister Didn't Want

I was five years old when I fell in love with a band, and it happened because my teenage sister didn't want them. A story about KISS, an older sister, a hand-me-down record, and the beginning of a lifelong relationship with music.

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