The longer version.

I’ve always been obsessed with nostalgia — memories, photos, keepsakes, old videos. And not just collecting them, but the actual craft of telling the stories behind them. There’s something about looking back on a moment and really feeling it all over again.

That thread runs through everything I do. I work at Block on the people side of small business tools. I write a Substack called Side Note for women navigating the beautiful, overwhelming work of actually living their lives. I photograph families, couples, and newborns — capturing the memories before they’re even made. And I built the Mom Life OS, a Notion system for the mental load that new parents carry.

I live in Austin with my husband and our golden retriever, Kona. I love hosting, long walks with friends, baking healthy desserts, and documenting my life the same way I document everyone else’s.

I’m drawn to the in-between — the moments between the milestones, the stories most people don’t think to tell. In a world that constantly pulls us in a million directions, I keep coming back to the things that force us to slow down and actually look.