Attended a San Francisco Cacophony Society event where I first experienced absinthe, igniting my lifelong passion for the Green Fairy.  I began crafting small batches of absinthe experimenting with vintage recipes and herb blends despite the U.S. prohibition and using my art history textbooks from college to learn more about absinthe.

With the ban lifted, I seized the opportunity to turn my passion into a legitimate business.

Released the first of four award-winning absinthes, bringing my dream to a wider audience.

Launched a line of non-alcoholic craft mixers, adding versatility and innovation to the brand, including Fairy Dust, our answer to our clients who love the flavor of absinthe but choose not to consume alcohol.

I planned a trip to New York City to meet with my distributors during the week the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened the Manet/Degas Exhibit. I visited on a rainy Thursday, September 28th. I spent hours exploring the exhibition, spending most of my time standing before their Absinthe paintings, looking at the original art, not slides in a lecture hall or reproductions in a book. Eventually, I wandered to the bookstore. That's when it hit me. I had always known I had a book in me. At that moment in the Met's bookstore, I understood the arc.  Absinthe was never only a drink. She became a surface onto which society projected its fears, desires, prejudices, and aspirations.At different moments she served as muse, scapegoat, symbol, and spectacle. The Green Fairy's Canvas examines how culture manufactures fear, how myth overtakes fact, how women are erased, and how art preserves what power tries to suppress.

Absinthe is the medium.  The canvas is larger.

Debuted Green Fairy Tales, a podcast exploring the rich history, cultural impact, and modern revival of absinthe.

Upcoming book release, blending art history and absinthe’s cultural impact, solidifying my role as an authority in the space.