Storm Chasers: the beginning.

It was amazing to watch people follow the same dream I had years before. I never missed an episode of Storm Chasers. Every attempt Dr. Josh Wurman made at getting Sean Casey’s TIV an intercept was recorded on my DVR. It was science like I’d never seen it before: gritty, raw, extreme. I wanted that…

 

Moving on up (directionally).

I went to college in upstate New York. RIT. It was one of the best, and snowiest, times of my life thus far. With a degree in New Media Design, I stuck around for years after my graduation. Sometimes I’d work in design, sometimes I wouldn’t. Eight years after my arrival, a lot happened in…

 

All I ever wanted, even then.

I was seven when my mom asked me if I still wanted to be a veterinarian. I said no, that I wanted to be a storm chaser. “…How will you make money to live?” was all my mom could think of to break the silence in the car. I grew up in southern Pennsylvania, in…

 

This is where I start.

La niña might be ending; I’m just getting started. What brought me here is simple: my fear of adventure. You read that correctly. When I was younger, I spent too much time fearing what also intrigued me. I spent more time hiding under the covers than watching the rain fall down the downstairs windows. Over the…

 
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