Consider this an explanation or justification for the existence of this website.

Why “Oops! All Words”

Words are one of my biggest strengths and also my most damning weakness. I make my living with words, I support myself and my family with words. Yet, so much of my life has been nothing but words. Words in the form of broken, empty promises. Words in the form of fruitless plans and hollow actions. Words in the form of defusing, dishonest, placating, people-pleasing deflections instead of sincere connection, reality, and honest communication.

Oops. All words.

This website will be filled with words. But I hope they are honest and earnest and real.

Who I am

This is a loaded statement, but I’ll just stick with the basics: I live in northeastern Ohio with my partner and our greyhound, Kona. For my day job I work as a technical writer and documentation engineer out of my house. (No, I don’t have “RTFM” tattooed on my knuckles.) I like wandering through libraries, playing video games, listening to ASMR, and picking up some new hobby approximately every few months, becoming incredibly obsessed with it before dropping it and moving on to the next one (we’ll see if this website is like that!). I also like fountain pens even though my handwriting is atrocious. I am a human of contradictions.