Fall 2025

What am I up to right now?

I will hold several typewriter letter-writing events around Boston, Massachusetts, this fall.

As I walk daily in Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum, I’m getting back to a frequent practice of nature journaling, also at Boston’s last farm. Time spent noticing and recording. It’s a solace.

I am asking questions, and the blog posts at this site are one form of those answers.

Can I build a version of an ‘attention cottage’? What might that look like amid life’s chaos?

Current Analog Tools

Nature journal kit.

And, on my art studio desk right now: Hermes Rocket typewriter, pictured above. And on my hideaway bedroom desk: Olympia Splendid 99.

Current Reads

Reading physical books, offline, is one essential ingredient of rebuilding attention.

Thinking in Watercolor: A Daily Practice to Unlock Your Creativity & Discover Your Inner Artist, Jessie Kanelos Weiner
Exploratory Writing: Everyday Magic for Life & Work, Alison Jones
Leisure: The Basis of Culture, Josef Pieper
We Need Your Art: Stop Messing Around & Make Something, Amie McNee

Recently Finished

The Bird in the Tree, Pilgrim Inn, The Heart of the Family, Elizabeth Goudge (The Eliot Family Trilogy)
A History of Rest, Alain Corbin
Thoughts & Adventures, Winston Churchill