it’s all about me

i’m a father, husband, brother, uncle, son, friend. i’m a photographer, a writer, a musician. i live in maine with my lovely, talented and patient wife, my lovely, talented daughter, a cat named rex and a dog named frodo. my lovely and talented son is a student at the university of glasgow (in scotland), and only lives with us when he’s not over there.

for pay, i am a customer service rep for cuddledown, taking telephone orders and occasionally abuse.

i was diagnosed in 2003 with multiple sclerosis, and while i do not dwell on it, i am never able to get very far away from it. i do my best not to let it interfere with my life. ms does not dictate the course of my life, but it does influence where i go and what i do, and every now and then, despite my best efforts, overwhelms me. others with chronic health issues will know what i mean.

some people use the catch phrase “i have ms, but ms doesn’t have me.” well, i have ms, and ms has me, just like photography has me, and music has me, and writing has me, and being a husband and father has me. ms is no less a part of me than anything else, and affects my life just as every other facet of my life does. it’s all just life, and life most definitely “has” me.

interesting fact about me that you might want to ask me about when we meet at an otherwise boring cocktail party: i once cooked dinner for tiny tim.

someday i might get inspired to write something more interesting about myself, but for now, this will get the job done.