claudia's surf city

I was in there somewhere, 55 years ago. I wouldn't meet the Life magazine crew covering the event (including John Dominus, who took the...

 

Getting set up here  for the big event at 1:54 pm tomorrow. That's when the 4 minute plus totality begins.  We're basically right be...

The more I look at this picture, the more I like it. It was made in Providence. I hope when I get there Monday it won't be snow city. An...

I have birds.  Hannah has cats. Lot of cat lovers in this world. Camilla, 13, is one. (That's Echo; Ember is above.) The artist Ryan, 10...

Some 23 years ago, I was interviewing a conspiracy theorist in the Ozarks who was firmly convinced that Y2K would be used...

Roll call: fifteen of the regulars. A lot of entertainments have been going on, and the blog couldn't keep up. Will try to do better. Bu...

Donna Ferrato took this photograph. When she and a friend, Charlie Shockey, came over yesterday, he opened his shirt, to reveal. . . So I th...

It only happens once in a blue moon. Sometimes the stars line up, and sometimes they don't. I will be leaving the Ozarks in a week, and ...

So it looks like Douglas has sold the tiny, asbestos-shingled shack we bought with his brother in 1980 for, ahem, $45,000, has sold. Not clo...

  Camilla used a picture I took of her and her sibling Isaac way back when at the Goose to do this work. The siblings spent the summer on Bl...

I heard about the wildfires in Maui yesterday evening and reached out to my friend John Cassel yesterday evening —his morning—to see if he ...