Hello Retail World!!

I’ve always lived somewhere between worlds-the quiet rhythms of the natural world, the deep time of the prehistoric past, and the bright, overstimulating pulse of modern retail. My writing is where those worlds meet. Whether I’m in my backyard tending to my flock, standing in awe of a Tyrannosaurus rex specimen in a museum, or organizing accessories under fluorescent lights, I am always observing, questioning, and trying to understand the lives that move around me – human and non-human alike.

The Kuntry Klucker was born out of love, loss, and responsibility. It is a space where I explore care, healing, cycles of life and death, and the small miracles that live in feathers, soil, and silence. Though it, I have learned that stewardship is not perfection-it is presence, and the courage to keep showing up even when doubt creeps in. My flock has become both a mirror and a teacher.

Coffee and Coelophysis is my love letter to deep time. It is where I wander through the Mesozoic as both a student and a storyteller, exploring theropods, fossils, museum halls, and the questions that refuse to leave me. Dinosaurs are not simply ancient creatures to me-they are a way of understanding survival, extinction, adaptation, and the quiet poetry written into bone.

And now, with Shelf Life: Lessons from Retail, I turn my eyes toward the living, breathing present. Retail is my modern ecosystem-a place humming with emotion, identity, capitalism, nostalgia, frustration, and fleeting joy. Behind the glitter and trinkets live a rich landscape of human behavior, longing, and performance. This space is my field journal and the human species my subject, a study of who we are when we shop, when we rush, when we hope, and when we don’t quite know who we are yet.

Together, these blogs form one body of work: a study of life – past, present, and living-shaped by curiosity, resilience, and wonder.