September 22, 2026Life Notes6 min read
Maybe the Best Memories Are the Ones We Never Planned
The moments that matter most do not always arrive on an itinerary. A reflection on distraction, attention, and letting ordinary time become a memory.
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Ten years after moving to Los Angeles, I look back on the life I built, the costs of leaving home, and the person I became along the way.
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September 16, 2026Life Notes15 min read
Ten Years in Los Angeles: I’m Not the Person Who Arrived Here
Ten years after moving to Los Angeles, I look back on the life I built, the costs of leaving home, and the person I became along the way.
September 10, 2026Life Notes6 min read
Can You Still Call Somewhere Home After You Leave?
Leaving home can create a second home without making the first one any less real. A reflection on distance, identity, and belonging to more than one place.
August 26, 2026Life Notes5 min read
Part Two: The Memories I Haven’t Made Yet
Nostalgia can help us notice what is missing now—without letting the past distract us from the ordinary days that are becoming our next memories.
August 18, 2026Life Notes8 min read
Part One: Maybe I Don’t Miss the Past. Maybe I Miss Who I Was Then.
Nostalgia can look like missing an old game, place, or period of life when what we really miss is the person we were and the future we imagined then.
June 29, 2026Life Notes3 min read
The Blog Is Back.
The blog is back in a more mature format, rebuilt around the questions adulthood keeps asking -- and the book I'm finally working toward publishing.
January 15, 2023Life Notes6 min read
Paris Thoughts vol. 1
The following thoughts are tidbits that came to me while on vacation this past week in Paris, France. There's no sort of order to them necessarily, but it's just commentary on life that I…
December 12, 2022Purpose & Personal Growth6 min read
Tyrell Wrapped: 2022 in Review
If I had to describe this year in a sentence? An absolute whirlwind of emotions, lessons, and building blocks for what I think might just be a pretty exciting future ahead. I've discussed…
September 16, 2022Life Notes10 min read
6 Years in Los Angeles
Why hello there. I know it's been two months since I last wrote anything, and do I ever have some updates... but those will come in time. Instead, I wanted to write a reflection piece…
July 13, 2022Life Notes8 min read
Life Lately.
I figured I'd do a bit of a check in with how things have been going lately... spoiler alert, it's been a tough year. As some know, I was laid off at the beginning of the year when the…
August 27, 2016Life Notes3 min read
Views from a man in the 3?
I guess I'm going to have to change my blog name - I'm moving to LA. Scared. Excited. Nervous. Curious. Anxious. Ready - these are a few of the 1,000 feelings running through my head at…
December 7, 2015Life Notes2 min read
Another Year.
2015 - The year I had hoped would be radically different from 2014. In some ways it was, in some ways it wasn't. As I approach my 26th spin around the sun as my good friend Nate used to…
September 13, 2015Life Notes3 min read
Tupac Shakur.
I was trying to think of an appropriate title for this post, but it seems only fitting that the name of Tupac Shakur should imply enough importance as it is. 19 years ago today, the world…
February 16, 2015Life Notes3 min read
The Theory of Everything
So I honestly wasn't sure if I was going to write on this blog anymore... but I've just been inspired so here it goes. If you haven't heard of The Theory of…
December 18, 2014Life Notes4 min read
Concluding 2014
I did have a third category of discussing things that I've learned from being in an advertising career for the last three years, but as I am currently an active job seeker - I will refrain…
December 11, 2014Life Notes2 min read
25 Years Young (Old?)
Saturday will mark my 25th year of entering and contributing I'd like to think so, but this is sometimes questionable to this planet we call Earth. While a lot has happened in 25 years, it…
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