I am a grandfather, husband, and friend. I am a student of grief and loss. I began my apprenticeship in grief and loss when I was five. My father and grandfather died when each was fifty-four years old. I have been playing with the house’s money for the past twenty-four years. (I could provide a list of deaths, divorces, and other losses to date). Of much less salience for me, I have recently ‘rewired’ from a fifty year practice in psychotherapy. I worked in the area of addictions and trauma. I hold three degrees from Washington University in St. Louis.