Editor & writer. Former senior editor @connecticutmag, Executive Editor @thelct. Writing about the arts for @nytimes, @takemagazine
Connecticut, USA
Joined January 2012
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Great Blue Heron @ Bantam Lake
📍Point Folly Campground, White Memorial, Litchfield CT
⌚8:30 a.m. EDT on 10/21/2026
Watson on the Bantam Lake viewing platform along the Lake Trail and Ice House Ruins Trail at White Memorial in Litchfield, CT (9/15/2026 @ 8:20 a.m.)
Good Harbor Beach, Gloucester, Mass. View from the upper floor at the Vista Motel. Note the footbridge featured in the 1937 Milton Avery painting "Bridge to the Sea" @CapeAnnMuseum, where we saw the wonderful exhibit “Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea." capeannmuseum.org/exhibition…
Looking west across Lake Waramaug from the @GoGunn1850 boathouse early evening July 26. Circa 1880 poem: “Thou art matchless in beauty, O Lake Waramaug.”
Ogunquit Beach, June 20, 2025
Swam in freezing ocean, had pizza & @mainebeerco Lunch IPA @cornerstoneogt + chowder & @LonePineBeer IPA @thelobstershack Perkins Cove after walking the Marginal Way. Read American Review literary mags from 1970s in library @MeadowmereOgt
#ogunquit
ALT Ogunquit Beach, June 20, 2025
Leaves of wild grapes unfurling at The White Memorial Conservation Center preserve in Litchfield, CT
Latest project: School district newsletter revamp w/ students as writers & staff and me as editor + mentor. First issue P 1 has features on alum who rescued 100+ bank employees before Fall of Saigon, and CT's famous Arethusa Farm folding into Ag program. bit.ly/3vdxNhF
Not sure what happened with this photo of the just-lit holiday tree on the Green in Litchfield, CT, but I like it.
Frosted tips on the pine cones this morning at White Memorial in #Litchfield #Connecticut
Looking east across Bantam Lake from Point Folly in Litchfield, CT, around 8:30 a.m. on 10/26. I live 5 minutes away but also "live" here.
One of my writing rooms is a 3/4-mile walk around a peninsula called Point Folly extending into Bantam Lake, Connecticut's largest natural lake. It's 5 minutes from home, inspirational in all seasons, a prime spot for viewing migrating ducks, and transcendent in the twilight.
Maybe not the sexiest color as autumn leaves go but it's perfect for handmade leather (or faux leather) cushions to go with my post-post-post modern club chair design that's currently poised at back-of-the-envelope-sketch status.
Someone asked me about the midcentury modern houses in Litchfield (a mini Harvard Five hotspot) and it reminded me of the story I wrote a few years ago for @MODERNmag online about the unheralded moderns in Pound Ridge (more per capita than New Canaan).
modernmag.com/emerging-from-…
