Sometimes the completion of a goal can feel like its unravelling, the complete incorporation of a new skill its dismissal… There is a letting go, it seems. And there we are again, just ourselves, seemingly back where we started. I hate the saying: “everywhere you go, there you are.” Because it’s not true. And yet… I said to my wife tonight I am scared of my sadness; scared of its persistence. I feel lost, and I do often. Even as my son is soon to arrive (due August 16). Even

Note: Originally published in the October 2017 issue of the Washington Park Profile. One might not know it, but tucked away on the fifth floor of the University of Denver’s relatively new Daniel Felix Ritchie School of Engineering & Computer Science building is a senior-citizen-focused institute making big waves both locally and internationally. “The Knoebel Institute for Healthy Aging opened its doors in its new location in August 2016 and was up and running by about October