June 1, 2025

What song do you associate with your biggest accomplishment?
I don’t know if it’s my biggest accomplishment, but moving and living out West as a young adult was an absolute dream adventure for me. I’m not sure which I love more- music, nature or traveling. Moving to Seattle checked all the boxes. We moved there for the music scene and the hope for jobs in our career fields. A lot of my early memories are tied up with music from that time period- discovering new music, going to record stores, seeing tons of live shows, going to music festivals. We traveled all over between Vancouver, Montana and California- from sea to desert to mountains. It was so much fun packed into 5 years. For me, Modest Mouse’s album The Lonesome Crowded West was a backdrop for those adventures. We even saw them live near our house, in the University of Washington cafeteria on campus, just after moving there.