I was born in Milan, Italy, completed my education in the United States and after a few years of actually working, embarked in entrepreneurial endeavors.
I delve deep into my passions: when I was young I could be counted on to show up to play in four soccer matches on any Sunday. Now that my body can’t keep up with my mind, I fill that void with family, cooking, and coding. I like to remind people that “you are what you eat,” and I add: ” … and drink, and breathe, and wear.” And this really explains why I have such a passion for quality, handmade things: paying attention to details can be very rewarding.
A native of Tokyo, Japan, I Emi-grated to the States when I was five years old (and no, I don’t like puns unless they’re absolutely irresistible). In school, I studied cognitive science where I learned to ask intriguing but completely real-life-inapplicable questions like “how does the brain recognize a straight line?” I then went on to do different things ranging from business consulting to tech support, before having my a-ha moment which lead me to where I am today.
My passions include traveling (mostly just wishing I were), photography (trying to learn how not to take really bad photos), and soccer (I have been known to practice kicking the ball in my sleep). My favorite quote is: In every truth, the opposite is equally true [Siddhartha]. I don’t know why, except it just sounds … true. And not true. At the same time.
I was born in a small town near Padova, Italy. When I was a little girl I dreamed of becoming a gymnast, but that dream ended quickly after my coaches started using physical force to make me more flexible than I was meant to be. So I switched to basketball and went on to play professionally, where I injured just about every part of my body. Then I got a degree in PR and worked for an integrated marketing agency for a few years before coming to the US in 2007.
At first I had trouble with words that were similar, like tab/tub, kitchen/chicken, etc. … the worst one being clerk/jerk. You can imagine the kind of trouble I got into when I used the wrong word at the DMV! Now I am much better at it, but I still occasionally provide some good entertainment at the office with my word mix-ups.
Tom D’Evelyn has held various positions in publishing and editing and is now a writing coach in Portsmouth New Hampshire, where he lives with his wife Toby Hatchett, a journalist, and cat Horace. His personal blog is poetrymetaxy.blogspot.com.
