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Reflections of a Second Life
Reflecting on my transformative experience in Second Life, detailing how it provided social connectivity, creative freedom, and personal growth. From discovering gameplay opportunities to building a thriving business, facing challenges, including financial stress and personal conflict. Read More
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Royal Visit Inspires Push for Annual Heritage Festival in Front Royal
The Royal Examiner: Coverage of a petition that I created calling for official recognition of the Royal Visit and the support of an annual event to promote tourism and community pride. Read More
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Restoring the Signal
Repairing relationships, rediscovering old tools, and building new systems, this project reconnects people through sound, text, and shared experience. From rotary phones to TTY machines, the exhibit restores more than signals—it brings communities, stories, and forgotten technology back online. Read More
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A Day In Civic Orbit
A connective day across Warren County: finance system discussions, FOIA timing adjustments, community visits, archival humor, fundraising updates, media corrections, and late-night video editing. Not a podium moment, but steady civic maintenance rooted in structure, relationships, and record-keeping. Read More
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From Bricks to a Bonded Community: Front Royal LUG Builds Something Bigger
The Royal Examiner: As organizer of the Front Royal LEGO Users Group, I describe how a simple idea became a stable, inclusive community—using shared builds, public exhibits, and library-based meetings to connect people through creativity, collaboration, and a love of LEGO. Read More
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The Power of Clubs in Community Life
Royal Examiner: In this letter to the editor, I reflect on how civic clubs strengthen communities, drawing from personal experience and the documentary Join or Die. I encourage residents to join local organizations as a meaningful way to connect, contribute, and belong. Read More
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Building Community: Launching the Front Royal LEGO User Group
I sat down with Mike McCool at the Royal Examiner to announce a new creative venture: the Front Royal LEGO User Group. From engineering complex Technic sets to fostering local collaboration, we’re building a community one brick at a time. Read More