watchmaking

  • August

    August pushed work stress to a breaking point and forced me to think more seriously about what comes next. I’m making changes, considering new opportunities, and trying to separate the desire for meaningful change from the urge to simply escape. Outside of work, cooking, time at the lake, and a little creative space have helped…

  • Over the last several months, I’ve been slowly working my way into the world of watchmaking and repair. It started as a curiosity. I wanted to understand how something so small could be so precise. And now I’m learning just how much there is to it—mechanical movement, finishing, hands, case alignment, tolerances, materials, tools, mistakes.…

  • Today I spent most of my day in the small storage building in our backyard. We call it the studio or the pool house. in our backyard, before we bought the house, there used to be a pool. It was filled in many years ago; the concrete around it started to crumble so now it’s…