Having completed my career as a family physician January 1, 2020, I have been enjoying turning my attention towards workshop and retreat creation and facilitation, teaching Nia classes, and to writing books. 

I self-published my fourth book, We Are Already Whole: A Book of Reflections and Invitations, in February 2021. This book was designed to help us get to know our True Self. It has been good to see this little book make its way, slowly but surely, into the world. I enjoyed teaching an online companion workshop, which gave time and space to delve more deeply into the book via discussion and journaling.

I self-published my fifth book, Fully Connected: How to Live A More Contented and Free Life, in October 2023. This book explains how, having discovered one’s True Self, we can remain, as much as possible, aware of our connection with our True Self, during the course of living our lives. This involves learning how to deal with the distractions that keep us from feeling our connection, as well as learning how to deepen our connection. This book is also a book of reflections, accompanied by a series of invitations.

In the fall of 2024, I self-published Tent Pegs: How to Live With More Strength and Stability. We are living in tumultuous times these days! If we liken ourselves to a small tent in a storm, we need solid tent pegs to keep us grounded and stable. In Tent Pegs I described some of my personal ‘tent pegs’ , and offered accompanying exercises for each one.

Shortly after publishing Tent Pegs, I realized I had more to say, and I began working on More Tent Pegs: How to Live With More Skill and Grace. I am aiming to release this book in the fall of 2025. It will offer twenty more ‘tent pegs’, and twenty more exercises!

In April 2022, I began a year of training to become a Certified Sage-ing Leader (CSL) for Sage-ing International. In 2015 I took their weekend workshop called Deepening the Sage Within. I knew right away that someday, I would like to be able to lead workshops that help us grow gracefully into becoming elders and sages. I became a CSL intern in April 2022, and graduated March 26,2023. Since then I have created and led a variety of workshops on such topics as Life Review, Life Repair, Preparing for Our Own Death, and How to Write an Ethical Will. In 2024, I became a mentor for new CSL interns, and have enjoyed it thoroughly.

I discovered retirement coaching in summer 2022. Indeed, it was challenging to retire just before COVID began, and I was interested in digging more deeply into the information that is available about Baby Boomer retirement. I completed the certified retirement coach training program in September 2022, and since then, I have been enjoying serving people going through their retirement transition, one on one, and via offering Transitioning into Retirement day- long workshops.

The first few years post-retirement from medicine have been amazingly rich, despite COVID initially putting a serious damper on in-person engagement. During COVID, I used our enforced at home time primarily for study and writing and presenting workshops on Zoom. Later as we began to emerge from the pandemic, it has been my joy to be able to offer in person events again.