I am everybody and nobody. I don’t mean that in some melodramatic way, I just mean that I fall into statistical norms while having unique perspectives and experiences.

I am 30-something who was born and raised in San Diego, CA, moved to Indiana to get Bachelor’s Degrees in Philosophy and Christian Ministries. I moved back to CA, met my wife, we moved to NY where we live now with our 4 (very young) children. I’m forever finishing a Master’s Degree in an advanced mathematical field. I say forever because I’m a thesis away, and while I’m writing this blog I should be writing my thesis. I drink, swear, and get angry far more than I should, and go to church, pray, and tithe far less than I should. In short, I live a uniquely common version of the American experience.

My resume is only important because I think it offers perspective. I believe in both the non-rational and the empirical, both move me. I call myself a Christian, yet get weirded out when someone who shares my faith perspective calls me “brother”. I will cry during a movie and remind myself that it’s totally reasonable not to mourn tragedies that I learn about across the globe because those bad things happen whether I am sad about it or not, and they are probably more the norm than the outlier. I love discussions of faith, art, and statistics, all geek me out.

I sheepishly write this blog because, well, read here…