Genesis
The Resilient Heart was born from my story of loss, love, and renewal, expressed through songs, writing, imagery, and advocacy shaped by caregiving, grief, and deep gratitude.
It is rooted in the ache of absence, the healing beauty of San Miguel de Allende, and the unexpected grace of newfound love. What began as catharsis has become a bridge: a way to give voice to what so many of us carry, but rarely speak aloud.
In the end, the journey that broke my heart also transformed my life. It gave me a deeper sense of meaning and purpose than I had known in the previous five decades, leading me toward service, creativity, advocacy, and a more grateful understanding of what it means to love, lose, heal, and begin again.
Background
Five Decades in Technology and Strategy
Before my work in senior health and care became the center of my life, I spent nearly five decades as a technology and strategy executive, consultant, and transformation leader for complex, multi-billion-dollar organizations. My career spanned grocery retail, wholesale distribution, food and beverage manufacturing, staffing, logistics, engineering, construction, enterprise software, and digital marketing. Across those years, I worked at the intersection of technology, operations, finance, strategy, and organizational change, helping companies use systems not merely to automate work, but to improve performance, reduce complexity, strengthen resilience, and create meaningful competitive advantage.
That work required more than technical fluency. It required systems thinking, disciplined execution, clear communication, and the ability to make complex ideas understandable to people with different responsibilities, priorities, and levels of technical knowledge. I led large IT organizations, managed significant budgets, supported mergers and acquisitions, built strategic roadmaps, modernized enterprise platforms, improved cybersecurity and compliance, implemented automation, and helped organizations prepare for waves of technological change, from early web architectures and ERP systems to cloud platforms, omnichannel retail, data analytics, and artificial intelligence.
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A Life Not Easily Defined
Even before The Resilient Heart, my life was never easy to place into a single category. I have always been drawn to making, exploring, learning, and expressing myself across many forms. Over the years, that has included designing and building my own furniture, building custom Stratocaster-style guitars and tweed amplifiers, racing bicycles, surfing, riding off-road motorcycles through remote country, exploring food and cooking with obsessive curiosity, writing about culinary technique and ingredients, and exhibiting black-and-white photography.
Those pursuits may seem unrelated on the surface, but to me they have always been part of the same impulse: the desire to understand how things work, how they feel, how they sound, how they move, how they can be made more beautiful, more useful, or more deeply expressive. Whether I was shaping wood, building a guitar, composing a photograph, refining a recipe, riding across difficult terrain, or searching for the right sentence, I was always engaged in some form of discovery.
I have never been easily defined or comfortably constrained by a single identity. I am analytical, but also deeply creative. Strategic, but also restless. Technical, but also drawn to beauty, craft, language, music, and human meaning. That lifelong pattern of curiosity and creation eventually found a deeper center in my work as a writer, advocate, songwriter, and public voice for senior health and care. In that sense, The Resilient Heart is not a departure from who I have been. It is the convergence of it.
And Now
Today, that experience continues to shape everything I do. I now bring the same strategic mindset, analytical discipline, and practical problem-solving approach to senior health, caregiving, healthcare delivery, advocacy, and emerging health technology. After decades spent helping large organizations simplify complexity and improve systems, I now apply that work to something more personal and urgent: helping older adults, caregivers, families, and care organizations make better decisions, build better support structures, and serve human beings with greater clarity, compassion, and effectiveness.
And in many ways, I work harder and longer today than I ever have. But it does not feel like work. It feels like purpose. What began as a career in technology and strategy has become a larger calling, one focused on improving health and care delivery for underserved seniors and helping families find dignity, guidance, and hope during some of life’s most difficult chapters.