Dr Dave is a retired carpenter/cabinet maker/home improvement contractor. He is also a retired clinical psychologist. 

He pursues duplicate bridge, gardening, reading, and “chores.” 

Needing something else todo with his time, in 2015, his wife, Kathy, gave him the gift of one glass blowing lesson. He has notstopped since.

Dr Dave is also a writer. For many years he wrote humorous folk songs. When Christopher Robin Milne died in 1996, Dr Dave wrote a few scenes and notes for a book about the adult Christopher Robin. He promptly put those notes away. In 2024, at his wife’s urging, returned to those notes, and in six weeks,wrote a book titled Christopher Robin Says Good Bye.