Autobiographical Statement

Over the course of my life I have been drawn to multiple means of finding value in the arts, humanities, and sciences. Strong early influences of my mother, an artist, poet and educator, and my father, a physician devoted to computers and informatics in medicine, have been of profound consequence in provoking a dynamic of tension, struggle, and eventual integration that has lasted a lifetime. I have been blessed with good fortune to have had a rural childhood bringing me into intimate contact with nature, a rich and diverse high school and university education, and many opportunities to pursue a career in education settings adjacent to mainstream universities, affording me study, travel, and professional development, thereby enabling all the contents found in my life-culminating web site. Although I have not devoted my life entirely to art, just as I have not done so in the humanities and sciences, I have found a rewarding and endlessly rich middle way in which my passions of life-long learning became manifest in my study of research methodologies for human inquiry across and among the arts, humanities, and sciences. If one had to put a label on it, the phrase would be research methodologist. I have found few companions taking this more challenging path, but it has not dissuaded me one iota from likely one of the most important decisions made early in my youth, now gratefully appreciated in my later years. The pursuit has enabled me to be artist, writer, and scientist, or to my way of thinking, an inquirer on a quest to know what one can about myself, others, the world, and all of life that makes one’s existence meaningful and fulfilling. It is my sincerest desire that in sharing the contents of my web site in the form of an arts based autobiography, others may come to know me and find something of value too.