I became a physician to honor my grandmother’s dream. She never had the opportunity to pursue it — so I carried that dream forward. I believe you have to live life fully, be thankful for everything it brings you on the journey, stay flexible, keep learning, and share your knowledge with others to make their path a little easier.

In 2020 I built a shed and fell in love with the presence woodworking demands. One distraction becomes a mistake — just like life. Mistakes in wood are visible but mostly only to you. You learn, you grow, and the next piece becomes better. That is not so different from how we live.

I visit small local sawmills, hand-select every slab, and kiln dry it before it enters my workshop. The sawmill owners are my friends now — different ages, cultures, backgrounds, all connected by wood. That relationship lives in every piece I make.