claudia's surf city

When it's wet outside, sometimes it's better just to hang around and renovate real estate indoors. If you have real estate that hasn...

We went down to the river, and baby the river was wide. Down to the river we did ride. Ay yi yi! It never rains but it pours. The firetrucks...

Each doing what they do best.

A true story from Pell City, Ala., just in from one of our southern correspondents. One foine day about a week ago, on the heels of St. Pat...

People in every room. In younger days, I lived communally in New Hampshire, Hawaii and a big old apartment on the Upper White Side. Now the ...

What a family! Yes, that's my niece in the lead role of her Los Angeles school play (they're quite competitive about acting out ther...

There have been complaints that I am not current enough in this blog. Being a news junkie, I do follow the news. Obsessively. I am assuming,...

I got to see my cousin David, who had come to town to network at the Architectural Digest Home Show. He was showing ceramics, including his ...

Yesterday, some 15 years after our first visit, Paula and I made a pilgrimage to Bala Cynwyd, Pa., to visit the world reknowned Barnes Colle...

Tomorrow is the first day of spring, and my little Adam turns 40. This year he will be an uncle, and I will be a grand, when my little Hanny...

That's the spring sunlight shining through the detritus from the closet explosion. And the dust. Anybody want art? T-shirts? Old compute...

One of my favorite web forwards of all time is recorded on my no-longer-maintained site "Why I Can't Stop Smoking." Since I s...

Ever since I read The Secret Garden and the Chronicles of Narnia as a child, I have been looking for that magic portal into another world....

I've been grubbing through my closet—you know, throwing out the old tax records, sneezing my head off because of the dust, rediscovering...

They came, they toured, they theater-ed, they museum-ed, they remade the bed (!), they split. Sigh.

When people who used to live in New York a few decades ago spend any time here these days, they are pretty shocked by the changes. No muggin...

If you look on the web, most people who write in say that ear candling is totally bogus and possibly even dangerous. But if you had been aro...

Due to the presence of the other generation, not to mention their elders, I have been unable to really devote any attention to really anythi...

The Santa Fe crew arrived Saturday for the College Tour. That's right, Mason is old enough to look at colleges. So he'll be checking...

I guess there's a reason I feel antsy in March. Almost always, at the end of the month, I hit the road. And four years ago at about this...