About ME
My first book was actually a play, called “The Pen and Pencil” when I was in first grade. My dad filmed it while my sister acted in it. I guess I was also the director, as I told my sister she wasn’t a good actress and she was fired!
I wrote a few more plays in those early years, but then in high school, good grades were more important, and my creativity took a back seat. It would be many years before I would write for fun again.
In between, I graduated from Hendrick Hudson High School in Montrose, New York and then majored in psychology at Dartmouth College. From there, I went to the University of Rochester School of Medicine in Rochester, NY.
After getting my MD degree, I survived my internship at the Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The best part of that year was meeting my future wife, Jenny, as she was working as a physical therapist in the post-cardiac care unit during my first rotation. She turned me down at first, but persistence prevailed!
My next stop was a three-year ophthalmology residency at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC, where I learned to diagnose, treat, and operate on patients with a multitude of eye conditions.
After residency, I took a position with two other eye surgeons in Concord, New Hampshire, practicing there for almost thirty-five years. Our eye practice gradually grew to fifteen doctors, the largest in the state. During that time, I also received a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Tennessee.
We lived in the adjoining small town, Hopkinton, NH, where we raised three children, Megan (Mimi), Jason, and Katie. Mimi and her son, Kiran, still live in Concord, Jason’s in Austin, Texas, and Katie’s in Brooklyn, New York.
2020 was the year of Covid, and time for me to retire. I enjoyed what I did, but I knew it was time for another chapter of life. We moved to Coronado, California, just outside of San Diego, for the winter, and Kennebunkport, Maine, where we had a vacation house, for the summer. We drive twice a year across the country with our big golden retriever, Ripley.
Now, finally with free time, I could finally indulge my passion, writing. After many years of pragmatism, I can finally let my creativity shine through.