Travel, media, personal projects, places I’ve explored, and whatever rabbit hole I happen to fall into next. This is where I share the stories, experiences, and ideas that don’t always fit neatly into a video.
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Years behind cameras taught me that better content is rarely about having the newest gear. It is about deciding what matters, noticing the story and making choices that give people a reason to keep paying attention.
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After more than 15 years of building websites, I am less interested than ever in making another generic template with a different logo. The subject should shape the experience.
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Texas Thread Theory started as a way to solve a practical problem: I wanted one storefront where merchandise from very different projects could live without forcing every brand to become its own ecommerce operation.
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I have access to more software, hardware and AI tools than I could ever use. These are the ones that have actually earned a place in the way I build websites, manage marketing and create content in 2026.
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Social media is great for attention. A website gives the work a permanent home, more control and a way for years of content to keep being useful long after a post leaves the feed.
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September has turned into one of those months where a surprising number of ideas are becoming real at the same time. Here is the public-facing version of what I am actually working on right now.
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An All About The Life design for your next adventure.
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Beets n Bangers started as one of those creative ideas I wanted to see through. Now the Beets side of the project is actually out in the world, which still feels a little ridiculous to say.
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My day job in marketing and the media projects I am building for myself are not competing paths. They are increasingly making each other better.
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AI has changed how much I can build and how quickly I can work, but the biggest lessons have been about context, judgment and knowing when speed is actually useful.
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What started as a handful of interests and old projects has turned into a growing network of focused media brands. The reason is simpler than it probably looks from the outside.
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A researched look back at the Dexter prequel that expanded the Morgan family history, earned mixed-to-positive reviews, and ended after one season.
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Blue Hole in Wimberley has the kind of setting that makes a Texas swimming hole feel different from an ordinary pool: spring-fed water, a creek corridor and a canopy of cypress trees.
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The 1897 South Bass Island Lighthouse is an Ohio State University landmark with a separate body of local Put-in-Bay ghost lore.
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The best time to visit Hippie Hole depends on what you want from the day.
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Behind the Gothic walls in Moundsville is a history of prison construction, overcrowding and closure, followed by a second life in heritage and paranormal tourism.
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Madison Blue Spring offers a very specific kind of Florida water day: a clear spring basin, a limestone setting and a connection to the Withlacoochee River.
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Ferry Plantation’s site reaches back to 17th-century ferry service, while the current 1830 house openly preserves paranormal reports and hosts investigation events.
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Jemez Falls brings together pine forest, rocky terrain and a waterfall on the East Fork of the Jemez River.
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Buffalo Trace in Frankfort has more than two centuries of site history and a collection of staff-reported paranormal stories that the distillery has recently highlighted.
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Havasu Falls is easy to recognize in photographs.
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Cleo’s Bath near Pinecrest is a hike with granite pools at the far end, not a swimming hole beside a parking space.
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Whispers Estate dates its earliest discovered building record to 1894 and now operates openly as a paranormal attraction that asks visitors to draw their own conclusions.
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Turner Falls is a straightforward reason to stop in Oklahoma’s Arbuckle Mountains: Honey Creek drops 77 feet into the natural pool below.
