I grew up poring over everything from crossword puzzles to cereal boxes, Nancy Drew to Harvard Business Review.
In preschool, as other kids skipped through Toys “R” Us, I beelined for the shelves of Barnes & Noble.
At Princeton University, I won a “coolest word contest” with sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia (the medical term for a brain freeze).
I love words: discovering them, arranging them, rearranging them ad infinitum. But most of all, I love using them to share the extraordinary in the ordinary—and connect with strangers thousands of miles away.
As a writer, I've covered everything from software engineering to space exploration, entrepreneurship to environmentalism, higher ed to hiring, and farming to food delivery.
John McPhee once told me, “There are a million ways to start a story.”
This is mine.
