He was the former Chief of Mental Health Services at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care in Plainville, Massachusetts for 17 years and has been a senior leader of the Opening the Heart workshop for 36 years until retiring in 2016. He loves eggs, ice, weeding, sitting by an outdoor fire and writing, playing hide and seek with grandchildren, digging clams with his toes in the Westport River and playing backgammon with his 93 year old friend. He lives with his inspiring wife of 46 years in Providence.