Writer & Journalist
Stories rooted in place
Boxes of Late Summer Light: A Master Gardener’s High Catskills Creation
Dean Riddle is reveling in the last of the summer phlox. The five-foot-tall semi-wild plants, bursting with ample pink blossoms, cover the Catskills through the second half of summer, graciously offering their nectar to butterflies and their beauty to anyone who will pause long enough to notice.
Latest Work
Sunday Dinner at the Diago’s—Chronogram July 26
Cabin Flush: Designer Daniela Araya’s Colorful Delaware County Cabin-Chronogram, June 2026
Inside Ivy Dane's Pattern-Filled Life in Hudson — Chronogram, May 2026
Karen Rinaldi’s Cocteau-Inspired Copake Home Is a Refuge After Divorce- Chronogram April, 2026
A Rhinebeck House Built for Entertaining—and a Life Together- Chronogram December, 2025
Plum Design Group Revives a Beloved Shawangunk Ridge Home- Upstate House, Winter 2025
A Storied Lake Compound in Esopus Gets an Eco-Conscious Uplift— Upstate House, Fall 2025
Mary Angeles Armstrong is a writer and journalist covering architecture, sustainable design, and historic preservation. Based in New York’s Hudson Valley, her in-depth profiles explore people and the places they call home. Her work appears in Chronogram, Upstate House, and Mansion Global.