Life

Where personal experience meets cultural expectation

This is where I write about the in-between spaces. The choices that don’t fit neatly into categories, the identities that shift as we grow, and what it means to build something authentic when the scripts we’re handed no longer fit. Faith shows up here as well, as practice and grounding, never as doctrine. So do the questions we ask at 40-something that we couldn’t have imagined at 25.

I write from the middle of it all, through the ongoing work of figuring it out.

Scars of the Homeland: Football, France, and the Belonging It Won’t Grant

August 2, 2026 10 min read

When a city in Kansas embraced Team Algeria during the World Cup, it showed me something France never has: the same humanity, extended to its own footballers and citizens of Algerian descent.

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Born in Champagne, Never Had a Drop: Lessons in Belonging

January 15, 2026 10 min read

I've spent 43 years navigating a world that treats "I don't drink" as a problem to solve. I'm still trying to understand why that bothers people more than it bothers me.

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To Be or Not to Be — Work is the Question

November 24, 2025 12 min read

What happens when you step away from work to find out who you are without it? A reflection on identity, capitalism, and the courage to pause.

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