Logic Puzzles
I run a weekly newsletter called Paradox Puzzles, featuring a new logic puzzle every week. For the uninitiated, logic puzzles are puzzles in which you have to solve for the truth, using the logic of language and deduction to guide your way. To the left is an example—try it out!
I have been making logic puzzles since high school, and many of the ones featured in the newsletter are modified versions of those puzzles I made when I should have been paying attention in various classes. I love to challenge my brain, I love math that is barely math, and I loved my Logic class in college more than maybe anything else I took. This project was dormant for years, and I am so glad it’s finally seeing the light.
Set Building
I have been building sets since the age of fourteen: four years as an apprentice/carpenter/Assistant Technical Director/Student Technical Director in the On Tour Company at Sanford H. Calhoun High School, four years as a TD for 13 student theatre productions at Brown University, and one year as a volunteer at the Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke, VA.
Set building and technical directing are loves that have never left my heart; about once a month, in all sincerity, I consider halting everything and getting an MFA in Technical Direction to finally find my way back to theatre.
Top: Songs I Stole From Anya, 2017. Set design by Anthony Derita and Marielle Burt.
Bottom: Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche, 2017. Set design by Zach Silberberg.
Book/Film/Music Reviewing
Books have always been a big part of my life; I’ve been reading voraciously for as long as I can remember. But film and music became instrumental parts of my life in college and that has not yet changed.
These days, I document my film-watching, along with the occasional review, on Letterboxd. I am an enthusiast more than a proper critic, but my passion runs extremely deep.
For books, I am still living in the 2010s and using Goodreads, failing my reading challenge nearly every year with pride.
Music I keep mostly to myself, but I would be remiss to not mention it here. Music gets me through everything; every difficult moment in life and even every beautiful one.