
I met Emily when I moved back to Tyler just before the pandemic — and after that, she was well and truly stuck with me. Literally!
A Texas native born in Palestine and raised in Frisco, I now share my home with two dogs, two cats, and a fiancée who loves me almost as much as she loves them. When I’m not outdoors or deep in research, I’ll occasionally pick up a video game — assuming I make it past the title screen before falling asleep in my chair.
This is Luffy, one of our two cats.


This is Pumpkin, our Boston Terrier. Or “Our Daughter,” as Emily calls her.

Zeke, our lab/pyrenees mix, wishing for a whole rotisserie chicken for Christmas
Koala (our second cat) and I doing important research in between folding socks.

