Kevin Ryan - This Is Your Life

Dr. Ryan is a fallen apple from two trees and he stayed pretty close to both.

His Dad was

• a Depression era Irish tenor,

• a WWII OSI tough guy who did "who the hell knows what"

• a hysterical comic stage actor and

• a senior corporate business executive who was very active as a non elected appointee and overall pain in the butt on this, that or the other town or county committee or commission in a southern Connecticut town where fitness, faith, family and smarts were king...and queen

His Mom is also known as

• The Sicilian Tsunami Mommy

• Obnoxiously gets smarter every year

• is a strapping 4'11" (depending on how high the lasagna is piled)

• over 92 year old former teacher and mezzo soprano who still hits the hospital three days a week and spends the rest of the time smacking a defenseless little white ball around or web surfing or luring those few "60 year old worth a damn kids" to who knows what fate by sporting about in her roadster

Dr. Ryan "paid the bills" growing up

• in performing arts

• doing any job that would not send him to the pokey

• but had a heart and head set for medicine and research and teaching

• He also won the lottery and his favorite Uncle, Sammy- invited him for a very long camping trip starting during a little tiff in South East Asia (I did not go in country)

• which he recently left as a full Colonel in the USAF

Dr. Ryan professionally

• always had some academic professor position one place or another

• His creative ca ca has been a long time gig in

• music and other artsy fartsy stuff- theatre, singing, radio, instruments

• writing research papers, theatre reviews, opinion columns

Civic duties have included

• citizen committees or commissions basically oriented towards

• improving education, literacy and

• keeping communities civil, smart, free and safe

• keeping the arts alive in our communities

Along the way he became

• a board certified Oncologist, Hematologist, and Internist

• picked up some Masters in

• Business, Leadership, Medical Management and

• other bells, whistles and polysyllabic parchment things mommies love to tell other mommies about on the golf course or frankly any chance they get to anyone who cannot run away

A few years ago, the McNaughton Newspapers

• asked him to write an opinion column and since then

• he has penned about a couple hundred pieces on

• leadership,

• arts,

• literacy and education,

• affairs of the heart,

• stinking thinking,

• crime and civic responsibility

• local and national politics,

• lessons of everyday life and

• Christmas

He is trying to finish

• Writing his swan song to clinical medicine - a book entitled "When Tumor is the Rumor and Cancer is the Answer: Cancer From the Mind, Heart and Soul of a Medical Oncologist".  And boy is it hard and humbling to do

• Get certified as a sound and studio engineer

He is delightfully married to

• Madame P. Empress of The Universe and Goddess Of All That Is Holy (she makes him say that), who is also a nurse, certified Vet Tech and Dental type and former Director of Health Care Occupations Education for Solano County

• His aspiration is to one day grow up to be "the man his dogs thought he was because presently

• he is owned by his wife's two cats

For the record,

• all those ugly rumors about being a kitty kisser are lies!!

• he was merely performing a feline ENT exam when the camera shutter closed... That's his story and he is sticking to it.

Oh yes, all of his creative stuff is pro bono and on this website.  He uses the name, Tony Deaf as a testimonial to his musical aptitude, Tone Deaf.