What Are Our Systems For?
The legal matter my family has been living through has led my wife and me to reevaluate what is most important in our lives. Uncertainty has a way of narrowing the field. Things that once seemed urgent begin…
Systems and Soil
Rebuilding what’s broken — technology, land, justice, and life — in public.
A personal journal on restoration, responsibility, and rebuilding from the ground up.
Building the Justice Restoration Foundation
From Experience to Repair I met Stephen L. Keller through a mutual acquaintance named Tim. I had known Tim through the local business community, and he knew about the legal matter I was going through. He thought Steve…
When Systems Fail the People Around Them
Over the past few years I have lived through something I never imagined experiencing: a federal criminal trial and sentencing. I chose to go to trial because I believed it was the right thing to do. I believed…
Building While Preparing to Be Absent
There is a difference between planning for growth and planning for absence. Most of my life, building meant momentum—more work, more opportunity, more reach. The assumption underneath all of it was presence. That I would be here. That…
Starting With Soil (When You Don’t Have Land)
We don’t have land yet. Not because the vision isn’t clear, and not because the desire isn’t strong, but because circumstances haven’t aligned in a way that makes ownership possible right now. Legal uncertainty, financial constraint, and the…
The System I Use to Build Websites with AI
I’ve been using AI longer than most people. Not just because I’m usually early to trends, but because I needed it. In 2017 I suffered a concussion, and for years afterward I dealt with issues that were hard…
What is Restore Creation
For the past few years, I’ve had a growing sense that the quality of food has been declining. Meat, fruit, vegetables—nothing catastrophic, nothing you could point to in a single moment. Just a gradual shift. Slow enough that…
Business Networking as a System
I joined BNI in May of 2022. I left in October of 2025. At the time, I was looking for a better way to market SOLUENCY. What I didn’t yet understand was that I also didn’t know how…
Where I am Now
I am waiting to be sentenced following a federal trial that ended in a conviction on a single count. I’m not going to explain that in this post, and I’m not going to litigate it in public while…
WordPress Finally Feels Right
I’ve spent most of my career not liking WordPress. That’s not something I’ve ever made much of publicly, and it’s not because WordPress is uniquely flawed or poorly made. My discomfort has always been quieter than that. It’s…