About Me

I don’t fit very well into a box.

(Actually, I suspect none of us do.)

Over the course of my career I’ve been

• A licensed counselor for over 20 years

• A leadership coach, including working with leadership of a literary nonprofit

• The first editor of a daily devotional magazine

• A chaplain resident in a Level 1 trauma center and a chaplain in a small community hospital

• The author of half a dozen books

• A speaker, preacher, interim/sabbatical pastor and retreat leader

• And then, perhaps the most surprising thing… I was personally invited to train with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ staff and then to staff grief workshops with them across the country and for a decade or more. When they retired I worked with a group carrying these workshops forward.

Along the way, I hiked up Mount Moses in the Sinai Desert for the sunrise, was hit by a car while biking, remembered great trauma from my past and then healed from it, was surprised by the blessing of most exceptional friends, was a caregiver for my aging parents until the time of their deaths, and both welcomed and grieved a number of rescue dogs and cats, most of whom were the very best boys and girls.

I’d be hard pressed to say which experience shaped me the most.

All I know is that they mattered. All of them.