About me

Transportation planner for the city of Sacramento, eight years in now, and the day job of reading ridership data has quietly rewired how I read everything else. I came to board games properly through a co-op game a coworker taught me on a lunch break, and I've been the one who builds the box insert on day one ever since.

I'm a transportation planner for the city of Sacramento, which mostly means I stare at ridership maps and argue about bus frequency for a living, and it bleeds into everything I read and play more than I expected it to when I started this job eight years ago. I read wide, old planet-hopping space opera next to dense nonfiction next to books people warned me were a slog, and I keep a paper notebook of everything I finish because typing it into an app never stuck. On the game side I'm pulled toward anything with real spatial reasoning in it, area control, worker placement, a board that actually changes shape as you play, which is probably just the day job again. My partner and I have a standing game night most weeks, and I'm the one who insists on the insert before anyone touches the shrink wrap.

Where I am: Sacramento, California

Still adding to the reading log by hand. Ask me about bus headways some time, I will actually answer.

What's here

Book reviews, board game reviews, and personal essays. No schedule, no affiliate links, nothing sponsored. I write about a book or a game after I've actually finished it and have something to say, which is why the dates on here are irregular.