@scrapchyck, #2 is the lie. I played with photoshop for years and never completed a single layout. It was only when I started to use Affinity Photo for iPad that I found my stride.
You are so kind. Sorry that I haven’t updated my ten year old avatar photo. I retired from my career as an anesthesiologist the day I turned sixty. I first developed hand arthritis in my 30s. I was 56 when I noticed some changes in my ability to do several tasks. I requested disability accommodations and was fortunate to continue with my employer until I was eligible for “full early” retirement.
Unfortunately both my maternal grandmother and I both worked at jobs that exacerbated our probably genetic predisposition to small joint osteoarthritis. She also had the skin that barely ages. She lived for six days after a stroke in her mid-eighties. Until that sixth day, she continued to look like she was 65. When I saw how much she had aged overnight, I knew…