Recipes for Reform
Language recipes: patterns named after you’ve lived them. If you’ve ever thought “it can’t just be me,” start here.
Notes From the Field
On-the-ground notes from inside the experience — the messy middle, the quiet parts, the stuff that doesn’t make it into reports. If you’re still in it, start here.
Military family life is often translated into metrics, programs, and talking points. But what families live is more specific than that — and people can feel the mismatch.
This site is where I name patterns in plain language — and sometimes build models to measure the gap between what’s promised and what’s real. Lived experience isn’t decoration. It’s data.
Some of this becomes frameworks. Some becomes talks or policy conversations. A lot of it stays right here — because people still need words for what they’re carrying.
Advocating for change — on and off the page
About Recipes for Reform
Recipes for Reform, LLC is the home for my systems-change work — writing, research, and experiments built from military family life, caregiving, and years spent adjacent to federal policy advocacy.
Some of this work is slow and place-based (Rock Island Farm). Some of it is fast and public (Weld + Wire). All of it is a test: do these ideas hold up when real people show up?
Start anywhere. Read what fits. If you’re looking for proof, it’s in the patterns — and in the language that finally makes them visible.