Welcome!

It's been a long strange trip. Not long after updating this site almost a year ago, chock full of enthusiasm and plans for creativity and grand plans, I was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer, caught as an outlier in that CT scan smokers get annually. I was lucky that it was caught so early, most don't have that chance. 

It was at that point that I got a whole new appreciation of the patient experience from a well-integrated healthcare system as implemented by Kaiser Permanente. I've actually worked on their systems a number of years ago consulting on the architecture of what is now deployed. The velocity of care I received alongside the sticky connectedness of information across all the KP specialists and personnel feeding a Patient Portal that could use some lipstick but is still very useful to me the patient was instrumental. Several of the doctors on my team are multi-year recipients of Best Doctor by either Baltimore Magazine or Washingtonian. 

It was a rough time for a bit, but I am fortunate to have a partner like Nina who watched over me and, at one point just after surgery, saved my life when she forced me to go to KP Emergency to get checked out. I was in the hospital for a very un-fun week. My son came into town to help take care of me after that bit of entertainment at St. Joe's. Friends and family got me through it. ​

I'm officially in remission now and will be re-engaging my art. i have a line of accessories for folks who need or embrace recreational and medical cannabis. I have a Coffee Table set that we've been using for a while and I really like it. More to come on that stuff for sure.

Stay well. Stay happy. If it ain't fun, don't do it. ​Say I love you. Enjoy the little things.