🇺🇲🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Retired CIO, writer, humanist. Stoic by practice, skeptic by temperament. I write about life, democracy’s cracks, aging with clarity, and the small rituals—pens, journaling, quiet mornings—that keep us steady while the world tilts.