When the Chaos Found Chords
Music has always been more than background noise for me. It has been a companion and a way of navigating a world that didn’t always make sense.
From a young age, I was drawn to rhythm—raw beats, heavy riffs, music that hits you in the chest before it reaches your ears. Loud concerts overwhelmed me at first, and fast lyrics felt like chaos layered atop an already noisy brain. When I was 14, I picked up a guitar, and something clicked. All that sound finally had somewhere to go. I could turn the chaos into chords, into something tangible. It was never about being good. It was about feeling. Music became my outlet, my anchor, and a core part of how I tell my story.
The Sounds That Built Me
Blink-182’s Untitled album lived on repeat. I learned every Tom DeLonge riff like scripture. It didn’t just shape my taste in music — it reshaped how I saw the world. Guitar became an outlet during some of the darker years of my teens, a way to step outside my struggles and imagine a different life.
In the early 2000s, I’d sit on my bed with a guitar, watching Tom record and create. I wasn’t studying theory or chasing precision. I was studying the feeling — the energy and release. I never picked up a guitar to master scales. I picked it up to feel something, to quiet my head, and to turn noise into something I could live with.
Guitar.
Stories.
Feeling.
It was never about being good.
It was about feeling something.
"I never picked up a guitar to master scales. I picked it up to feel something, to quiet my head, and to turn noise into something I could live with."
When words fail, I play.
Right now there is one track up. It is raw but it is ours. The plan is to record seven or eight more and release them as they are ready.
What you are hearing is not studio polish. These songs come from lived experience — recovery, parenting, love, loss, clarity.
If you are an aspiring artist, let's jam.More tracks on the way. Check back.
The soundtrack that shaped me.
Loud, honest, and a little rough around the edges. Bands that made me feel less alone before I had the words to explain why.
Pop punk, indie rock, the kind of songs that hit different when you are 15 and the world feels too big and too loud all at once.
Throw it on. Turn it up.
Music is one side of the story.
If you want the rest of it — recovery, AuDHD, hockey, what shaped me and how it all connects to the work I do — the About Me page has all of it.
About Me"Let's have an honest conversation."
I work with lawyers planning their next move and with the firms and general counsels who need to find the right one.
