My Life as a Writer
I did not come to writing by the usual path.
During my formal education, I was not an avid reader, nor did I think of myself as a writer. What I did have, even then, was a deep sensitivity to language. I cared about finding the right word, the right phrase, the right way to express an idea so that it landed with precision and feeling. I may not have understood it at the time, but that instinct, the desire to say something clearly, honestly, and well, was the beginning of my life as a writer.
Writing became more important to me during my professional years. As a Corporate Director, and later as an executive in IT and Strategy, I discovered that writing was not merely a way to communicate decisions. It was a way to clarify complex ideas, persuade people toward action, and make emerging realities easier to understand. In a world shaped by technology, systems, risk, and change, I found that good writing could give structure to complexity.
For a time, I served as an Associate Editor for a technical magazine, where I wrote a 10,000-word monthly column titled The Accounting Department. Later, as a freelance journalist, I wrote about the radical changes beginning to unfold during the Dot Com era. That period taught me something important: writing could be analytical, predictive, and practical. It could look ahead, connect patterns, help people prepare for what was coming, and, most importantly, do more than illuminate. It could influence a shift in thinking.
But my deepest passion for writing, the kind I cannot leave alone, came later, when I began writing about senior health and care.
That work changed everything. It moved writing from professional communication into something more personal, urgent, and human. Writing about aging, caregiving, dementia, healthy diets and lifestyles, medical advances, healthcare system failures, assisted living, memory care, hospice, family decision-making, and the dignity of older adults gave me a subject that demanded both clarity and compassion. It asked me to bring together research, lived experience, advocacy, grief, love, and moral purpose.
I write now because families need language for things they often do not know how to say. Caregivers need to feel seen. Seniors need to be honored. Complex health and care decisions need to be made more understandable. Healthcare itself needs to be re-conceived in a way that places the patient, not the institution, at the center. And the emotional realities of aging, illness, loss, and devotion need to be spoken of with honesty, tenderness, and respect.
Over time, writing has become one of the central ways I serve. It allows me to translate complexity into understanding, pain into meaning, and private experience into something that may help another person feel less alone.
I was not a writer first. I became one because life kept handing me things that needed to be understood, explained, remembered, and felt.
Journalism: Health, Care, Medicine, Advocacy and Activism
But my deepest passion for writing, the kind I cannot leave alone, came later, when I began writing about senior health and care.
At this moment, I have written more than 650,000 words and hundreds of articles, both long-form and short-form, on senior health and care, medical advancements, caregiving, lifestyle and diet, and the failings of the healthcare system. What began as research, first in response to the fears and then the realities of my wife’s early-onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis, gradually became something larger. It became a foundational part of a new life purpose, one rooted in understanding, advocacy, compassion, and the belief that families facing illness and aging deserve better information, better guidance, and far greater dignity.
That work changed everything. It moved writing from professional communication into something more personal, urgent, and human.
These articles can be accessed here.
Author: There’s No Easy Answer
A Caregiver’s Guide to Alzheimer’s and Dementia
Many books address individual aspects of dementia caregiving. There’s No Easy Answer brings the emotional and practical journey together in one compassionate, coherent guide, helping families understand what unfolds from diagnosis onward.
Written from firsthand experience, extensive research, and years of senior care advocacy, this 300-page guide does not romanticize dementia caregiving or reduce it to simple lessons. Instead, it gives shape to the realities many caregivers quietly endure: shock, fear, anger, grief, exhaustion, endurance, devotion, and the slow reckoning with a life that is changing in ways no family is ever fully prepared to face.
Using the Kübler-Ross stages of grief as a framework, the book explores the emotional terrain of caregiving while also offering practical guidance for planning, communication, care decisions, family dynamics, and the daily challenges of Alzheimer’s and dementia. Its substantial companion guide includes scripts, checklists, and real-world tools caregivers can return to as circumstances change.
At its heart, There’s No Easy Answer is both a deeply personal work and a practical resource. It was shaped by my nearly fourteen years caring for my wife, Sanna, after her diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease at age forty-seven. The years that followed did not return me to the life I had before. They led me into a different one, shaped by loss, clarified by purpose, and devoted to helping other families feel less alone.
Available on Amazon (hardcover, paperback, and Kindle).
Weekly Newsletter
For the past seven years, I have written a comprehensive weekly newsletter focused on senior health and care, along with thoughtful coverage of expat life in San Miguel de Allende.
Each issue is built around a central theme, such as blood pressure management for seniors, dementia care, healthy aging, caregiver resilience, nutrition, medical advances, or the practical realities of living well later in life. Around that theme, I curate and write a blend of original articles, selected videos, book recommendations, and useful resources designed to help readers better understand the issues affecting older adults and the families who care for them.
The newsletter serves as both an educational resource and a continuing act of advocacy. It is written for seniors, caregivers, adult children, families considering care options, and expatriates seeking a more informed and supported life in San Miguel de Allende. Its purpose is simple: to make complex health and care topics more accessible, more human, and more useful to the people who need them most.
You can subscribe to this newsletter and access back issues here.
