Occupation: I'm an editor, writer, and author with professional level IT skills. I majored in economics at Yale. I always thought I had to do business or engineering, but I was always a writer. That was my passion, that was what I loved and what I wanted to do. I bounced around in my early 20s until my brother became a journalist, and I thought "Oh, you could make a living this way?" My first newspaper job was as a reporter at The Brookfield Journal. I was there three months, then I got offered a job at a daily. I spent the next ten years at different daily papers in Connecticut until 1995. I had always been a computer geek and when the internet came along, I wound up working for small internet companies and led the team that built all the websites for the phone company, SNET. As far as what I do for work now, I work on various freelance projects of my own, and I manage websites for small business and a publishing company in New York.

Family: I have a son in his late 20s who wants to be an actor. I have parents in their 80s in Patterson, N.Y. I have two younger brothers, one who works for ESPN and lives in Cheshire. The other lives in North Carolina and had spent his entire career in journalism and recently said it's not fun anymore, and now he's a building inspector and having a great time. My girlfriend, Anne Renner, is a semiretired lawyer from New Hampshire. We've been going back and forth between here and New Hampshire for the last three years. We bought the house together here and have been fixing it up. We are happy to be residents of Sandy Hook.

How long have you lived in Newtown? Since February 2016. We had to put a furnace in the first day, a new roof on the second month, and do a whole back wall on the house over the summer.

Since I met Anne, I like to go to the opera. I played electric guitar a lot when I was a kid, but I play all acoustic now. Also, I am a veracious reader. I belong to a book club up in New Hampshire. That's how I knew I was in with Anne originally, because she invited me to join the book club with her friends she'd had for 20 years. I'm by far the newest member.What do you like to do in your free time?

Do you have a favorite book? The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle. It was a Disney movie in the 80s, and it's the most beautiful fantasy writing that I have ever come across. I read it when I was 20, and it made me want to become a writer.

What is your favorite travel destination?Northeast Magazine had ever ran - 10,000 words - about my experience. That led directly to getting an agent and writing a book about medical tourism called Beauty From Afar. St Martin, because Anne and I went there when we were first dating and had a wonderful week there. The other destination is Costa Rica, because that led directly to me getting to write a book. In 2004, I ended up going there for dental work. I was very careful and trusted the dentist that I found. I ended up writing the longest piece that

What is the best part about Newtown? The neighborhood we are in is so wonderful and beautiful. We wanted to find a place by water. We didn't think we could afford Fairfield County, but there are some little gems out there. I always liked Newtown, it has a special feel, and we are happy to be here. We love the neighborhood in Sandy Hook; the neighbors have been great.

What has been the greatest influence in your life? I'm a curious person. I'm driven by curiosity. It's what drove me into journalism.

If you could spend the day with one person, who would you choose and why? Anne. We just love spending time together.

What is the greatest piece of advice you have ever been given? Follow your heart. It's really hard to do, but I think I'm getting better at it. Every time I have, it's worked.