claudia's surf city

It's been a big year for Little Miss Thing who turns 28 tomorrow: New building, new dog and new car (two days old, above). Not many adul...

The distaff side may not have the headgear going on, but she has a lot else. Check the chic bag, recently purchased at some place in Soho th...

Certain people always know what's stylin'. Earflap Russian hat is so happening. Also, for those who have yet to purchase a calendar ...

I know, Wolfen, I shouldn't put my phone number and address on the web.

Christmas Eve en mass in Mass, followed by jollifications and jubilations in Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Now back in New York, ...

I'm having a problem with the fruitcake thing. I know they have fallen from favor. Everybody talks about tossing fruitcakes in the trash...

For the past three evenings, photographer Donna Ferrato has been holding entertainments in her Tribeca loft to sell prints and calendars for...

John sends in these pix of the scene at the compound after the great First Storm of Winter. And Happy Belated Solstice!

New York is full of tourists slogging through the snow. Not least, my cousin Avery and her Great Aunt Sally, in from New Orleans, who took i...

The elves of Woonsocket have been busy packing and shipping, the elves of 98 Riverside have been busy withdrawing and stuffing envelopes and...

I read the following in the New York Times yesterday: In a 2007 study by psychologists at Northwestern, Princeton and Lawrence Universitie...

Whaddya think? Balcony overlooking the sea from the master bedroom? Worth the building permit hassle?

Winter isn't even here yet (this pic taken by brother John last year), but summer rentals on Block Island are already booking up—a month...

Nice cake, though.

It's holiday season —and deer season. Going to show that there are nests of rednecks even on tiny trendy islands fourteen miles off the...

Tomorrow! Be there. Oh, and promptly.

I saw the following in Craigslist , and it reminded me so of Mr. Squiggles (which, by the way, that damn mechanical hamster toy is named aft...

Kate (right) gathered quite the crowd in fashionable Greenwich Village, including the Photographer (center) trying to talk the Rapper (left)...