1. THE FOOL’S NOTEBOOK
This is where the road begins. The Fool is the card of beginning, trust, risk, becoming—the energy of stepping forward without knowing exactly where the road leads. This series is a record of the early steps—fragments, sketches, and reflections from a life still taking shape. Here, I share process notes about my memoir-in-progress, Fire in My Mouth. Nothing here is finished. A sketchbook and seedbed.
For years, I wrote in the margins—of teaching schedules, sobriety anniversaries, album reviews, unfinished songs and half-hearted routines. What would it mean to thread it all together? What would be revealed?
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This isn’t a typical blog or newsletter.
You won’t find hot takes or how-tos here.
There’s no algorithm, no productivity hacks.
Just a mirror for anyone in a season of return. For anyone craving a softer pace. For anyone rebuilding voice, identity, or creative practice from the inside out.
Tracework grew from my own season of unraveling—professionally, emotionally, spiritually. After a long and quiet rebuilding of something like a self, I didn’t want to just write content.
I wanted to trace the creative work I had abandoned—what still pulsed underneath the ash, what still sang—in the context of my life now.
Because for years, I wrote in the margins—of teaching schedules, sobriety anniversaries, album reviews, unfinished songs, and half-hearted routines.
What would it mean to thread it all together? What would be revealed?
So I’ve been gathering those margins, rewriting them, listening for the