I have had a varied and eventful life, working stints as a molecular biologist, consulting attorney, and data scientist. My weekend job in high school was assistant soccer referee; I learned how to stay calm and take mental notes while parents and coaches screamed at me about the offside rule! Many serious moments in life are actually very funny; conversely some humor is dead serious.
I live near Washington, DC so hello from across the pond! I have never really met a hobby I did not enjoy but some of them that come to mind include tea, mycology, pinball, traditional/country living, model rocketry, and cooking.
Comedy is another interest of mine; PG Wodehouse in particular. I read most of his Jeeves stories as a teenager and discovered his Golf stories later on in life, complete with in-jokes about Aristotle.
I have a lifelong love of reading and books and words in general, and am excited to be able to share my stories with the world. Roald Dahl has been a big influence and I admire his warm sense of the absurd.
First and foremost, I am a storyteller. At the moment I wish to explore the themes of heroism, resurrection, transcendence, future shock and spiritual fulfilment through adventures both epic and light-hearted.
In my journey as a writer, I've encountered analogies and metaphors about what it is that writers do, exactly. Is it like building a watch or hunting for truffles with famished pigs? Could it be fence-laying, house-building, tending a large fire perhaps?
I would say nay -- we writers build glorious crowns! Many, many days, most of them in fact, are spent melting the gold, casting the wax, pouring the mold. Then there are the other days, the heady ones, where the writer hews jewels out of the earth or else gleans deep purses of the sea or even coaxes the very light of the sky to flutter down and rest a spell.
