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
Stories and Writing
The narrative layer: enough context to understand why the photograph, place, project, race, or argument mattered.
Regional and civic networks
Camp Fire-period engagement, Berryessa Brewing, League of California Cities relationships, climate advocacy, Council briefings, and public forums.
Building blocks
Four Alcatraz crossings beginning at age fourteen, the youngest United States Triathlon Championships qualification at fifteen years and two months, three races in one childhood weekend, and more than 25,000 bicycle miles before driving.
1993-96: on my own, then Sigma Chi
World Championship team gold in Manchester, complete financial independence by October 1, Foothill College while working full time, and the Beta Pi-to-Kappa Theta Sigma Chi chapter.
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.