Life can be random, so try to look for the patterns.

  • My biological father passed away before I was born. When my mother remarried, I was adopted by my Irish-American father into his family of three.
  • Being adopted was a double-edged sword. I was both part of the family as well as an outsider, depending on which way the wind blew. So to get by,
    I tried to assimilate.
  • Later in life I began to revisit
    this decision and realized that through no fault of their own,
    I will never fit into the mold of
    my adopted family. I’m not Irish and I never could be.
  • In 2016 I filed for and was awarded the trademark for North Border. What started
    as a journey of self-discovery transformed into an attempt represent the culture of the North through design.
  • My biological father passed away before
    I was born. When my mother remarried,
    I was adopted by my Irish-American father into his family of three.
  • Being adopted was a double-edged sword. I was both part of the family as well as an outsider, depending on which way the wind blew. So to get by, I tried
    to assimilate.
  • Later in life I began to revisit this decision and realized that through no fault of their own, I will never fit into the mold of my adopted family. I’m not Irish and I never could be.
  • In 2016 I filed for and was awarded the trademark for North Border. What started as a journey of self-discovery transformed into an attempt represent the culture of the North through design.