I’ve never been very good at staying in one lane.

I’m a writer, marketer, designer, coach, creative, and builder. I’ve spent more than 20 years helping organizations communicate more clearly, tell better stories, solve problems, and turn ideas into something real. But if there’s a common thread running through everything I do, it’s probably this:

I love building things that matter.

Sometimes that means building a brand or launching a website. Sometimes it means helping a business find its voice, creating a book from an idea that wouldn’t leave me alone, or figuring out how to make something complicated a little simpler.

And sometimes it means standing on a baseball field trying to help a group of young men become something more than they were when the season started.

The Creative Side

For most of my career, I’ve worked at the intersection of creativity, communication, and strategy. I founded Provurbs Creative in 2008 and have spent years working with businesses and nonprofit organizations on branding, websites, design, video, marketing, and storytelling.

Today, I serve as Director of Marketing & Operations for a seafood company, where my work stretches well beyond traditional marketing. On any given day, I might be working on brand strategy, sales initiatives, packaging, operations, hiring, product development, a website, or whatever problem happens to need solving.

That variety is something I’ve come to appreciate. I like taking an idea that is still a little messy and figuring out how to bring it to life.

The Writing Side

Writing has always been another way for me to make sense of things.

I’m the author of One Last Sermon and Why Pastors Quit, along with several children’s stories and books I’m continuing to develop.

Some of those stories have much simpler beginnings.

Chester Firebreather, for example, started one night while I was putting my son to bed. I made up a story, he fell asleep, and I liked the idea enough that I immediately went to the computer and started typing before I forgot it.

That pretty well summarizes how a lot of my creative projects begin. An idea shows up. And then I have a hard time leaving it alone.

The Baseball Side

Baseball has become one of the biggest parts of my life. I’ve spent more than a decade coaching baseball, working with players from youth baseball through high school and American Legion.

In 2021, I founded Bat Boys Baseball to create additional competitive and developmental opportunities for players throughout the Mid-Willamette Valley. Since then, I’ve coached or overseen dozens of teams, seasons, clinics, practices, and events.

Today, I serve as the head varsity baseball coach at Woodburn High School and coach American Legion Post 58 in the summer.

I love competing. I love winning. But the longer I coach, the more convinced I become that the most important part of the job has very little to do with the scoreboard. It’s helping players develop confidence. Teaching them how to respond when things don’t go their way. Holding them accountable. Giving them a place where they belong. And hopefully helping them walk away from the game someday as better people because they played it.

Baseball has given me some of my favorite relationships, memories, frustrations, lessons, and stories. And I wouldn’t trade any of it.

Still Building

The funny thing is, I’m not sure I know exactly what I want to be when I grow up. And I’m okay with that. I still love starting projects. I still get excited when an idea begins to take shape. I still enjoy learning something I’ve never done before and figuring it out along the way.

There are books I want to finish, businesses and ideas I want to build, baseball programs I want to strengthen, stories I want to tell, and plenty of things I probably haven’t thought of yet.

So this website is really a collection of all of that. The work. The books. The baseball. The ideas. The projects that worked. Probably a few that didn’t. And whatever comes next.

Thanks for stopping by.