By day, I’m an aerospace engineer. Spreadsheets, systems, and living a pretty typical 9-5.
By night (and most of my vacation days), I’m somewhere in the world chasing professional baseball.
I’ve spent the last six years navigating the very unglamorous, very unpredictable life of minor league, independent, and international baseball alongside my husband. While he’s still working toward the MLB, we’ve somehow built a life out of airports, short-term housing, PTO requests and figuring things out as we go.
Outside of that, I’m a lifelong hockey and bandy player which basically means I spend my winters on ice, chasing a ball, in conditions most people avoid.
This blog is where all of those worlds collide:
the structure of a corporate career, the chaos of professional baseball, and the very real, very weird moments that happen somewhere in between.
I’m starting this six years into baseball life, which means these stories come from everywhere. Some are happening right now, some happened years ago, and all of them have been sitting in the “you can’t make this up” category for a while.
There’s no timeline. No perfect structure. Just moments that didn’t make sense at the time but somehow do now. The chaotic ones that felt bigger than they should have.
Because as it turns out… somewhere between the 9-5, the flights, the extra innings, and off seasons is where this life actually happens… and makes for some pretty good stories.
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