Professional Profile Supplement

This supplement is provided for those interested in marital mediation and senior care.

While I have completed the necessary training to  permit me to mediate divorce cases in Texas,  I am choosing to apply my skill and training to help couples preserve and improve, rather than to terminate their commitment.

Regarding Senior Care: I had the experience of caring for my mother when it became necessary for her to move to a nursing home, and was supportive of my wife as she had that experience with her mother. Those experiences led me to become certified by the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services as an Ombudsman. I am assigned as a part-time volunteer to a specific nursing home, where I visit twice a week and interact with as many of the residents as possible -- as their friend and advocate.

I value the many lessons I have learned in a twenty-year first marriage that blessed me with two children and four grandchildren, and a second marriage that blessed me with three stepchildren and four step grandchildren. My wife, Joan, and I celebrated our twenty-seventh anniversary Dec. 19, 2008 and are looking forward to our twenty-eighth and many more. I have a valuable understanding of the joys and challenges of a blended family.