I’ve had a lot of improbable moments in my creative life — photographing a football team without knowing any football, creating a book because my best friend and a community theater play conspired to hit me with inspiration at the exact right moment, discovering I’m autistic at 50-something and finally understanding why my brain feels…
(…and other things I wish someone had told me before I bought a filing cabinet for my personality.) I spent a generous portion of my life believing something was fundamentally off about me—not dramatically wrong, just… excessive. Too curious. Too scattershot. Too excited about something brand-new at precisely the moment everyone else thought I should…
If you’d told me two decades ago that The Leonardo Trait would still be with me—gnawing gently on my ankle like a determined little creativity gremlin—I would’ve laughed. Or cried. Or both. Depends on the day. Back then, I thought I’d write the book, launch it, and move on with my life like a normal…
If you’ve ever had twenty browser tabs open in your brain, all leading to wildly different obsessions — congratulations, you may be one of my people. You probably collect hobbies like other people collect shoes. You get wildly excited about new ideas, sometimes abandon them halfway through, and occasionally stay awake at night thinking about…