Time is a trick of perspective, a clever illusion—like a story we tell ourselves about what comes next. In truth, it’s all happening at once. The past is still whispering, the present is already shifting, and the future is just now, seen from a different angle. But if we must pretend it’s ahead of us, then here are the obsessions, questions, and wild bets I’m chasing into the so-called future:

The Expanding Edges of Storytelling – How narrative evolves in an era where AI can write, VR can immerse, and audiences can co-create. What happens when stories are no longer linear but living?

Magic as a Way of Seeing and Storymaking – Not tricks, but transformation. How do we cultivate wonder as a daily practice? What ancient wisdoms and modern discoveries point to something more? What is spellcasting in a narrative?

Performance, Presence, & Peopling – Writing is one form of storytelling, but what about the body? The voice? The unscripted, live-wire energy of being in the room, in the moment—in community?

The Story at the End of the World – There’s a story ahead of us that is waiting to be found, written, conjured, manifest — something—and it will mark the end of the current world and usher in a new one. What is this story? How will it take shape?

Pilgriming the Present – What does it mean to live in the now when everyone wants to be a futurist? What does it mean to journey in place? What is home in a world where the terra firma is always falling from beneath our feet?

Everything I Can’t Yet Name – The best stories are the ones we don’t see coming. The future, whatever that is, will be full of them.