I am a Licensed Professional Teacher and Certified Human Resource Associate, with additional training in caregiving. My work has moved through education, human resource management, administration, and finance, with numbers becoming a familiar language over nearly a decade. I genuinely love them. I enjoy their precision, their patterns, and the satisfaction of watching separate figures begin to make sense together. I have always been interested in that moment when something stops looking like a collection of parts and starts revealing a whole.

That interest follows me into the way I build systems. I like studying movement: where something begins, where it slows down, what gets in its way, and what might make it move more naturally. I enjoy finding connections between separate parts and creating enough structure for them to work in sync without making the process feel heavier than it needs to be. Computing and problem-solving appeal to me for much the same reason. I like looking at something from a different angle, especially when the obvious answer is not necessarily the interesting one.

I have always loved lines, literal lines. I believe art starts with a line. From one line comes another, and eventually they become shape, perspective, movement, and meaning. What I love about a line is its simplicity and its possibility. Change its direction, length, or position, and everything around it changes with it. Perhaps that is why I am drawn to painting, poetry, sculpture, architecture, furniture, and the details of spaces. I like seeing how something as simple as a mark, a material, or an empty room can become something entirely different through intention.

I find the same pleasure in photography and video, particularly in color grading. I enjoy taking an image and slowly bringing it closer to the one I had in mind. The right tones, the right balance of colors, the right atmosphere. Sometimes it takes far longer than it probably should, but I like that process of looking, adjusting, and looking again. There is something deeply rewarding about seeing the colors finally settle into place and realizing that what I imagined is now something I can actually see.

I read, I write, and I tend to follow a question wherever it leads. When something genuinely interests me, I can spend years studying it, often moving between different subjects along the way because one answer tends to open another question. I enjoy going deep rather than simply knowing enough to move on. Sometimes the subject eventually falls away, not because I have lost interest, but because I have reached the answer I was looking for. I have written blogs before, although I am currently on a hiatus from writing them. Philosophy and psychology especially appeal to me because they lead beneath what is immediately visible: what shapes a person, what sits behind a decision, and how much of a life can remain unseen even when we think we know someone.

I love traveling, museums, the coast, and quiet places where there is enough room to notice things. I watch films, especially horror, but I am just as interested in real-life documentaries. I like stories that are imagined, but I am equally fascinated by the ones that actually happened. And when I am not reading, watching, creating, working, or wandering through some new thought, I am probably asleep, somewhere between one dream and the next, having an adventure of my own.