The short version: I build things out of words.The longer version: I grew up with a pretty gnarly stutter. That means I grew up with a deep frustration over the inability to say what I wanted to say, how I wanted to say it. But something pretty dramatic happened in first grade: I learned to write. All of a sudden a new world was open to me. With a pen in my hand I could be funny. I could be insightful. I could be poetic. With a pen in my hand I could finally be fluent. While most people don't know what it's like to have a stutter, everyone knows how frustrating it is when things just don't come out right. And that's what gets me out of bed in the morning: Helping people feel the joy and freedom of being able to say exactly what they want to say, how they want to say it.