About Me

Just a guy in my forties starting a new career as a Registered Nurse after spending the past 15 years in IT as a software and network engineer.

I live in beautiful and rural Vermont with my fiancee and work at Rutland Regional Medical Center in the PCU, which is a place where very dynamic and exciting patients (from a medical standpoint, I suppose) are placed.  They usually are too ill for a general medical/sugical floor and not quite ill enough for ICU.  It’s a great location for someone to develop their critical care skills.

Also, I must say, the hospital simply rocks.  Rutland Regional is the best community hospital I’ve ever seen.  Every place has its flaws, but the management is really rocking things hard.  I feel lucky to be working here.

I practice Zen Buddhism and spend some time every year at Zen Mountain Monastery on Mount Tremper, New York, which is very close to Woodstock.  Since I’ve moved to Rutland I’ve discovered that there is a group of Zen students who are affiliated with ZMM and a few of these people work at the hospital.

My interests outside of nursing, Buddhism and blogging include running, swimming and biking, archery, vegetarianism, simple living and challenging conversation.

As a side note, this picture isn’t very recent (ok, out of date by nearly twenty years) but it does serve as a reminder to me not to hurdle couches at a full sprint in order to get to the phone before it stops ringing. Oh – and always survey rooms you enter for low-hanging concrete beams.