I recently retired after a long career as a designer in the tech industry, and I’m grateful for the professional opportunities I had that aligned with my ambitions for practically my entire adult life. But still, especially during my last couple years in the workforce, I wanted more time and freedom to make things that reflect my somewhat sprawling aesthetic and too many interests. I was apprehensive about taking this next step for a while, because I didn’t have a plan for exactly what I wanted to do in retirement, but I also realized it would require a leap of faith and trust that my subsequent journey would reveal itself over time.

I don’t do much social media, in fact I started ditching my accounts on most platforms a couple years ago. However, I do love communicating with words and pictures (mostly pictures!), so I decided that perhaps an old-school blog might be just my speed for documenting my post-work life. I love that my blog belongs to me and me alone, and I can embellish it however I choose – and if no one ever looks at it, and it amounts to little more than a visual journal that happens to be online, that’s fine! So here we are.

For the time being, I’m playing catch-up and tackling some rainy-day projects that filled my personal OneNote pages for years, but I never had the time for – so initially it might be pretty heavy on the design and illustration side. But I do anticipate branching out to share some cultural adventures, and just to reflect occasionally, old man style. Even after these first few months, I’m discovering some new avenues I didn’t anticipate, so perhaps my leap of faith is starting to pay early dividends. Thanks for visiting. 

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