Where I slow the ideas down
I started writing because projects and runs often ended before I had figured out what they meant. On the page, I can stay with the awkward parts longer, test the story I told myself, and translate an environmental problem into something a reader might actually feel.
Projects
Step by Step, Stride by Stride
On Step by Step, Stride by Stride, I publish essays that begin with long-distance running, hiking, or endurance and wander into climate change, sustainability, and our relationship with nature. The blog gives me space to write before I know the answer and to let physical experiences become questions rather than neat lessons.
The Last Plastic Fork and Other Green Epiphanies
My short fiction was selected as one of 20 finalists from 538 submissions for Habitat Press’s anthology The Last Plastic Fork and Other Green Epiphanies. Writing fiction let me explore environmental choices through a character’s contradictions instead of explaining the issue from a distance.
Teaching ideas out loud
Since 2024, I have taught academic writing, IELTS, and SAT courses to 100+ students through online classes and one-to-one mentoring. Teaching is where I find out whether an idea is truly clear: if one explanation does not click, I have to listen, rebuild it, and try again.