So…perhaps you’ve read a bit  about my acupuncture practice on my site…or if you haven’t, you can…just click here.

But here’s a bit more about me and my journey to acupuncture. I mean, really- how does a Broadway hoofer end up adopting the 5000 + year-old medicine of a culture so entirely different from his own?

Good question…and one I kind of look back and ponder myself!

The truth is, it was inspired by a number of those ‘life events’ that only in retrospect created a collective response that now makes my journey seem inevitable…but seemed random at the time: my aunt had an autoimmune disease scleroderma; a woman who worked for my family when I was a kid- Gertrude- had a ‘bad back’ (as she liked to say) and I determined early on, at the tender age of 4, that I wanted to help her because I loved her so much!

Then my Dad died at 55 of a heart attack; my Mom died at 68 due to the fallout of form of blood cancer called myelodysplasia; my aunt’s long battle with scleroderma ended when she was 67…so there was much in the arena of health (or rather the lack of it) that caught my attention along the way…I was intrigued, even back in high school and college by nutrition, information about alternative forms of medicine as well as yoga…

But of course I was busy working on becoming a Broadway STAR, so there was no real thought of these topics as a career; my interest swung more towards using my knowledge to increase my capabilities and preventing injury on my way to the top!

Fast forward to 1993: I was to start a relationship that would ultimately alter me in so many unpredictable ways…because along came my animal pal…Spanky.

He was the catalyst, my own little furry soul mate who pulled it all together for me and finally inspired me to step out of my comfort zone for real…

All of these incidents together seem to have molded my psyche, informed my journey…and led me to this ancient medicine and the amazing journey of my midlife!