A book in progress

Shallow Hands

Personal essays on love, cost, and what we carry. The stuff underneath the public work.

The Pattern Drops are about the systems. This is about the man inside them.

Shallow Hands is a book being built in real time. Personal essays about what it costs to love deeply in a world that treats dependable people like infrastructure. About fatherhood. About the weight that accumulates when you're the one who never puts it down. About the moment you finally do.

These pieces are not political commentary. They are the other thing.

The Essays

01

When Love Becomes a Weight Only One Person Carries New

You think the more you love someone, the closer they'll come. So you give more. Then one day you wake up and you're not in love anymore. You're tired.

May 2026  ·  8 min read

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