From Castrated Rooster to Award-Nominated Memoir:
20 Years of Stories.
One New Framework.
Aether. Life, Taking Shape.
It started 20 years ago with a Thanksgiving letter about my French host family's attempt at turkey. (They served a castrated rooster.)
That letter became an annual tradition—one story per year from wherever I found myself in the world:
France. UK. Iraq. America.
What began as a blog post evolved into award-nominated literary mini-memoirs. Podcast-quality storytelling. Not your ordinary holiday update.
This November marks Year 20.
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"Everything We Pushed Offshore" asks: What if the distance we create—the encounters we avoid, the systems we build to live without seeing—is keeping us from becoming who we're meant to be?
For the first time, I'm launching something alongside the story:
AETHER—a framework for living fully, built on six fundamental questions:
→ Where do we stand? (ROOTED)
→ What echoes within? (DISTILLED)
→ Which horizon calls? (EXPANDED)
→ What waits at the edge? (LIMINAL)
→ What elevates us? (EMBRACED)
→ Who walks with us? (COLLECTIVE)
This isn't self-help. This is story meeting system. Literature meeting life practice.
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