The Light Space in an Empty Hammock

A cross-country road trip. A pandemic. A mystic named Grace. And a journey that rewrote everything I thought I knew about fate, symbols, and the hidden architecture of life.

When I agreed to ride from Annapolis to Malibu in a 1968 Buick Electra, I didn’t expect to be initiated into an astonishing system of astrology and daily meaning—simple, elegant, and unlike anything I’d ever encountered. Grace taught through stories, playlists, strangers we met along the way, and moments so uncanny they still raise the hair on my arms.

But our journey didn’t end the way stories like this are supposed to.
Something terrible happened—something I can’t make sense of without telling the whole truth, mile by mile.

Part spiritual awakening, part American odyssey, part mystery, this memoir invites you to decide for yourself who Grace really was…and what she may have unlocked.

If you’re drawn to synchronicity, symbolism, astrology, meaning-making, or the quiet magic of the open road, this story will stay with you long after the last page.