Category Archives: Notes

Just outside of Woodstock on the winding road to Willow, Elena Zang and her partner Alan Hoffman have an art gallery and grounds worthy of any landscape painter’s attention. There’s a sculpture garden and a flowing stream. In summer a Read More

Years ago, I was living in New York City full time and really needed a change, so I signed up for a summer writing and meditation workshop in Taos, New Mexico. From Albuquerque, I rented a car and drove north. Read More

From my studio in New York City, I look out onto bland buildings arranged like toy blocks on a board game. I’ve had better views. (And I’ve had worse. But that’s another post.) When I lived downtown, my windows opened Read More

I’ve been back from North Carolina for a couple of days, and I haven’t thought about writing anything for this post—until five minutes ago. Whenever I’m down south, I compare the imaginary life I could have had if I’d stayed Read More

I usually write about art or photography or writers who inspire me, but tonight I have to do a post about a monster truck. After the long drive from New York yesterday, I’m still tired and a little groggy–sort of Read More

Happy Thanksgiving! I’m in upstate New York today, looking out the window at a mountain range that includes Meads Mountain, Indian Head and Overlook. It’s overcast, so the purple light that often shades the mountains during winter looks blue-gray, and Read More

Last night Patti Smith won the National Book Award for Just Kids at a ceremony in NYC attended by many people using Twitter to send messages instantly to the rest of us who were sitting at home. I followed the Read More

When I was offered a solo show at the Rondout Savings Bank, I was thrilled. And then I thought about how I don’t really shoot series photos and about how I’d never tried to make groups of photos that worked Read More

Years ago, I took acting class in a studio space on West 71th Street above Cafe La Fortuna. Back then I had no idea how attached I would become to Fortuna’s dim back room, exposed brick walls, and private outdoor Read More