About

I’ve been building things my whole life. It’s what I love to do. As a master carpenter, I’m drawn to the inherent challenge and satisfaction of creating things by hand that are both beautiful and functional. The process of taking materials, altering them with tools and finishing the day with something new to look at is immensely satisfying.

Another love of mine is learning. Over the years, I have been lucky enough to work with a number of talented people, and took every opportunity to learn from them. I’m always looking for new challenges—new things to build and improve upon, tweaking the design and technique to make it better.  Whether approaching education as the teacher or the student, constant learning keeps things fresh.

Now living with Parkinson’s disease, building also provides me great occupational therapy. Since manual dexterity is important to everything I do, early on in my Parkinson’s journey I thought it was cruel that I would have a condition that compromises it. Now I realize my passion is kind of a blessing. I need to constantly challenge my dexterity. That’s what woodworking does for me, just like occupational therapy. And how lucky that something I love is also what I need to be doing.