Born in Dallas, Texas while my father was attending Dallas Theological Seminary. We moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where I grew up.
In 1999, my parents feared the Y2K computer bug would cause societal collapse. We relocated to Tylertown, Mississippi — deep rural, population barely over a thousand. It didn't collapse. But something about that move — the upheaval, the strangeness of starting over in a place that felt like another century — shaped how I think about reinvention.