Five books on one idea
Exploring Changes is an independent press in the mountains of western North Carolina, co-founded with my wife Alisha. Every title under it grew out of the same belief: that change is possible for anyone willing to look at their life honestly, and that the hardest part is rarely the plan. It is the becoming.
New · October 13, 2026
Like Asheville, or Better
In June 2020 we sold the house, packed two teenage daughters into thirty feet of trailer, and spent a year crossing America chasing one word. We ended up in the mountains outside Asheville. The discovery was that better was never a place.
The Guide to Gratitude
Gratitude as a practice you build rather than a feeling you wait for. It is also the thread running through the whole year on the road, which is why it belongs next to the memoir on this shelf.
Positive Parenting Solutions to Raise Highly Sensitive Children
For parents raising a child who feels everything more intensely than other children seem to, and who are tired of being told to toughen them up.
Loving a Highly Sensitive Person
The companion book, written for the partners, friends and family on the other side of that sensitivity, who want to understand rather than fix.
No More Social Anxiety for Teenagers
Written with Hailey Baurer
My daughter and I wrote this one together while she was still a teenager herself. She is in college now, which tells you something about how long a book can take to find its moment.