About me

Native Texan in the frigid Northeast (Boston) by way of Austin, San Francisco, and Chicago. Always looking for my next adventure.

Unequivocally in love with my bicycle, my camera, dried mango, and James Bond.

Sucker for a good book, a new city, a beautiful pair of earrings, and Gregory House.

Summer Day
by Mary Oliver

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she ...