First and best early memories of home is of a Dutch colonial house overlooking the Connecticut River in Higganum, Connecticut. I learned to fish and play barefoot soccer while being chased by an old turkey. My 4 siblings and I had railroad tracks behind the house, and we loved playing on freight cars and squishing pennies and screws on the tracks. There was sledding and skating in winter and water activities all summer. I spent all day everyday outside, when I wasn’t in school, and I still dream of that antique red house. I had a freedom kids don’t have today, without overly anxious parents and multiple media. It was heaven.

For my tenth birthday I received a brownie camera and cube shaped plastic flashbulbs, a gift from my favorite uncle. I learned slowly over many years about photography. It wasn’t the first digital camera that changed everything, but rather, about two iterations later, a goofy Nikon Coolpix swivel camera. By the time I bought a D60, I was totally smitten, and I began lessons and online lessons and workshops and anything that would teach me how to mostly achieve the vision I was looking for. It was such fun work!