About me? I grew up watching Bob Vila and This Old House on PBS. Back then there was an honor in constructing things the right way and the durable way, pride in fixing wood windows and rebuilding panel and frame doors. Today, all we can see on TV is the quick and cheap fix-for-profit real estate shows with cost numbers plastered on the screen like a scoreboard. Sorry Norm, 900 episodes later there is still too much work to do before you can retire.
Science was always more interesting to me than art, Engineering over Architecture, and it drove me mentally out of the program. I realized that most Architects spent decades working under other people for salaries that weren’t that great. I took that scientific approach and applied it to construction. I have always liked learning and knowing how things work, and how to make them better. After many years of remodeling, repairing and building new structures, I felt it was time to make a change and focus my efforts.
Now I can look forward to the next chapter in my life, where I hope to go out and help save our built treasures. There are so many places I’d like to see and explore, work on and repair, that I know I could never finish. I can only hope to contribute.