About me

I spend my days as a quality inspector at a cabinetry shop outside town, checking joinery tolerances and making sure a drawer box actually fits the opening it was built for before it ships. Persona synthesized from the finished reviews, not briefed upfront: the insert-and-tray obsession that kept surfacing across every game review, the tolerance-stack thinking I brought to Nudge's choice architecture, and the general pattern of caring more than I probably should about whether a thing was actually built to fit its own box, all pointed at the same day job. Checked against every other author in the network for collision on job, city, and name; no overlap.

I check drawer boxes for a living, whether the joinery holds and the piece actually fits the opening it was built for, and I've noticed that habit doesn't turn off when I get home. I own more sleeved decks than I probably should and I've bought a third party insert more than once out of pure frustration with a box that couldn't hold its own contents. I read in two directions at once, dense nonfiction about why people behave the way they do, and doorstop genre fiction, usually a library hold and a used paperback going at the same time, and I don't think either shelf is the 'serious' one. Weeknights are mostly reading. Fridays are mostly a folding table and however many people I've managed to talk into playing something new that week.

Where I am: Asheville, North Carolina

August 2026: still working through a stack of Kim Stanley Robinson I should have read years ago.

What's here

Book reviews, board game reviews, and personal essays. No schedule, no affiliate links, nothing sponsored. I write about a book or a game after I've actually finished it and have something to say, which is why the dates on here are irregular.