Public life
Campaigns, television, Council chambers, regional government, civic marches, family service, and a pancake-eating contest that refused to be excluded from the historical record.
Essays · records · photographs · maps · transcripts
The short version usually leaves out the useful part.
Long-form stories supply the context that a caption or résumé line cannot. They connect an event to what came before, what happened afterward and the records that survived.
Context is what keeps an anecdote from impersonating a conclusion.
Photographs with context
Start with the record.
Regional and civic networks
Camp Fire-period engagement, Berryessa Brewing, League of California Cities relationships, climate advocacy, Council briefings, and public forums.
Building blocks
Competitive swimming and running from age five, Rapp’s Triathlon at age nine, four Alcatraz crossings, national qualification at fifteen, and tens of thousands of bicycle training miles before age sixteen.
1993–96: on my own, working and in school
World Championship team gold in Manchester, complete financial independence by October 1, and Foothill College while working full time.
Pear Grove to Bidwell Park Apartments
Relocation, language access, neighborhood opposition, public finance, construction, and an affordable community still operating at 1197 East Eighth Street.
Caper Acres
Keeping a children’s playground open while making supervised alternative-custody work restorative and useful.
Prepare and restore
Accidents, recovery, accountability, and the distinction between restorative justice and consequence-free sentiment.
The current athletic life
Soccer dad, swim dad, running, cycling, open-water swimming, family sport, and why the athletic record did not end when the podiums did.
Meiss Meadows, night one
February 26, 2010: the first night of a ten-day snow camp, under a tarp at roughly 8,800 feet.
Camp Fire period
Mayor, recovery, housing, intergovernmental engagement, fire-service readiness, and principled dissent.
Radio before the license
Childhood bootlegging with a younger brother, followed by formal licensing, service, teaching, systems, and propagation.
Grand Canyon in July
Tent camping, a same-day descent and ascent, exceptional heat, water, pacing, exposure, and the line between endurance and bad judgment.
Close encounter
A 2011 home intrusion, contemporaneous reporting, fear, accountability and the later question of what restoration can mean.