Food
What are you the Anthony Bourdain of?
I'm rereading Kitchen Confidential and it's like having a good man in the house for the holidays, and I don't mean the kind who puts the Christmas lights up.
What's good? 👊🏽
I'm a social entrepreneur working at the intersection of youth development and local economy in various capacities – as a nonprofit leader, education consultant, and small food business owner ☕️.
I'm "local-first" and deeply committed to my change work taking place in my home community in the Inland Empire region of Southern California. How I can enrich the community that gave me everything is a question that consumes me.
Food often shows up in my writing and work. I was born into the business, and have worked on the land and in back-of-the-house environments throughout my life. How food, labor, people, and stories collide is a narrative interest of mine.
Writing helps me navigate a myriad of roles and identities – past, present, public, and private – to discover unique points of connection and avenues for impact.
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My Writing
Community
That's what I crossed the street for?
Listen I'm sorry I let so much time go by without telling you that I really liked your story. You're a good writer.
America
Who would Marty Crane have voted for?
Frasier is reminiscent of a time when it was just an unquestionable part of life to squabble with family members over wildly different political views.
Family
Spend Time With Kids
Spending time with kids invites liberatory chaos into your life. The same kind of chaos that characterizes love, aging, illness.
Womanhood
Summer Makeover
Everyone’s trying to permanently dial back time through radical beauty procedures and self-harm. Fuck — I just want to lie to myself for a couple of hours.
Family
Letting the Oil Run Off
When we sold the food business my parents started in the early 1980s a few years ago, I was deeply concerned it would kill my father.
That’s because it was the truest expression of his undivided self.
America
Stand on Purpose
Standing on purpose and grief are one and the same. Those of us working in the trenches in our communities experience these in tandem, knowing that the blessing of purpose and the curse of grief are tightly interwoven.