Writing about the things that change us.
Transition. Reinvention. Loss. Identity. Aging. Recovery. New beginnings that don't look the way you expected. I write about the territory between one chapter of life and the next — because that's where most of the interesting things happen.
I also work one-on-one with people navigating their own.
Your Next Chapter
Essays for people who know that change is rarely clean or linear.
Your Next Chapter is where I write about transition — the kind that doesn't announce itself cleanly, doesn't resolve on schedule, and doesn't come with a map.
The subjects include identity, loss, reinvention, aging, recovery, uncertainty, and the particular experience of arriving somewhere in life and realizing the old answers no longer quite fit.
These aren't self-help essays. There are no frameworks, no five steps, no promises about what's waiting on the other side.
They're attempts to pay close attention to something that most of us are living through — and to find language for it while it's still happening.
New essays approximately twice each month.
There's a particular kind of difficulty that doesn't have a clean name. The work that defined you for decades no longer fits. A role ends. A relationship changes. You reach a point you spent years working toward and discover it doesn't feel the way you expected.
Or nothing dramatic happens at all. You simply notice that the answers you've been carrying — about who you are, what matters, what comes next — have quietly stopped working.
I work with people in that space. Not to hand them a new plan, but to listen carefully — for what's being said and what isn't — and to ask the questions that help them find the real issue behind the issue.
A Little About Me
I've been interested in change for a long time.
As a counselor, I watched people try to hold onto identities that no longer fit. As a business executive, I watched organizations do the same thing. As a coach, I've sat with people in the middle of transitions they didn't choose and couldn't quite name.
I've also lived a fair amount of it myself — career reinvention, recovery, endurance sports, family loss, and the particular disorientation that comes when the structures and answers that once worked for you quietly stop working.
That's what I find myself returning to, in writing and in conversation: what happens in the space between who we were and who we're becoming.
I don't think that space has easy answers. But I do think it's worth paying attention to.
Conversations
I like conversations without easy answers.
I've talked with podcast hosts about transition, recovery, loss, identity, endurance, aging, men's mental health, high sensitivity, and what happens when the life you planned becomes something else.
What comes next?
I don't think every transition requires an answer.
Sometimes it begins with a question.
Read an essay. Listen to a conversation. Or, if you're navigating something yourself, reach out.