The first blog entry

Hello! Let me begin this blog entry, by letting you know that it is my very first blog entry, ever! I think that TTM is a great platform to begin the blogging though, so here we go. I think this will be great beginning entry to tell you a little more about my mentor, the late Dr. Glen Bowen. It has been three years since this world lost Dr Bowen, and three years since I lost my Dumbledore. It may seem silly, but losing Glen put in to perspective the part in Harry Potter when Harry loses Dumbledore, and then time shows him that he needs to continue what Dumbledore had set him out doing and had taught him about. For Harry, it was the pursuit of He Who Shall Not Be Named, and for me, it was continuing my career in dermatology, and expanding on Glen's mission against melanoma. 

Ever since losing Glen I have based a lot of things in my life on the thought "What would Glen think about this?"  I have had this thought when I built my overlanding 4x4 rig, a 2005 Toyota Sequoia that I took from a stock vehicle with a blown head gasket, to a lifted, kitted out, off-road adventuring machine, to when I was just contemplating a melanoma outreach to the motorsports community.  What would glen think about this? I know from how Glen used to describe me to patient's that he was always so proud and supportive of my and the things that I built. He always loved talking to me about new ideas, and things that he thought would be cool to build. So many memories of sitting with him in the lab at work while he drew out designs for things on a paper towel or scrap of newspaper. He was also inventing and inventing things in his head, and he often bounced ideas off of me to get my perspective on how to make them work. In his mind, I could do anything, which is a humbling thought, because, that is certainly not how I see things in my own head a lot of the time. Glen's perspective of me has definitely pushed me to think more things are possible. Had I not has his voice in my head, TTM would never have become a thing, the LentiGO would not have even been a concept, or even more, a physical vehicle that we own. 

My life is a small drop in the bucket of the multitude of lives that Glen Bowen touched and changed, but that does not mean that he didnt help shape me into the person I am today. 

Last Friday, 03/31/23 was the third annual Glen Bowen Symposium, put on by the Huntsman Cancer Institute out of Salt Lake City, Utah. I will place the link at the bottom of this post incase you would like to listen to others explain how Glen touched their lives. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qKFH4XJXm4 
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