I'm an artistic person in many senses. I truly enjoy oil painting, drawing (especially figure drawing), and watercoloring. I also play guitar and bass, which I use to write my own songs. I sing all the parts on my 8-song CD, "Time for These Eight", as well as singing lead in my 2-man acoustic duo.

My other artistic love is writing, which finds its outlet on my art blog. I have a link to it at the bottom of each entry on all my photostreams, so please look for it and click it.

I love living in the North End neighborhood of Boston because of its turn-of-the-century architecture, its crowded-tenement zeitgeist and the familiarity of its Italian-American family occupants. I also like the fact that Boston is walkable in size and historically significant in its presence.