THERE IS NO DIRECT CORRELATION, but lately my gardens have been seeping into my paintings, and vice versa. In a way it makes sense, since I am spending about equal Continue reading

I STRUGGLE TO STAY AFLOAT upon a vast sea of green; the May tide keeps rising, testing my equilibrium with successive swells of lilac, viburnum, rhododendron. I  tread grass and leaf Continue reading

HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS, Bellows Falls, Vermont, or a dozen other small, post-industrial New England cities struggling to reinvent themselves with monuments of a bygone era.