claudia's surf city

We have had a stretch of the most wonderful weather. If anyone knows of a hurricane headed for me (other than the one gathering in Cong...

  I heard a disturbing moniker for the old Italian residents of Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn: Leftovers.     Clearly this term is us...

That's the new sofa for CSC in the box. Wrong porch—but close enough.

Spoiler alert: Paper towels! Also 3 bananas. But there are 6 exciting and seasonal other fruits. And uncountable other seasonal fruits! Wh...

A quick stop in Woonsocket to celebrate some people's seventh anniversary, and today, off to Block Island bearing half of Ikea. Wha...

Goodbye New York. Goodbye friends. Goodbye conversation that never ends. Goodbye apartment. Goodbye bed. I'm off to another place t...

Ok, I know it's not roundup day (Monday), but here is the latest news anyway. Camilla (above) is still three. Isaac is one month old ...

f Silly Walk

It's green peanut season. And that means it's dragon fruit season too, and time to go to Chinatown for exotic foods—congee and roa...

"It's in the DNA," says Chris. He opens the door of a property they saw, bid on, landed and had just signed a purchase and s...

Surrounded by some 50 friends and relations, Camilla Imogen celebrated her third birthday with balloons, bunnies, a pony and, as requested...

before the lightening during lightening     Today is Camilla's birthday! En route there to celebrate. Party pix tomorrow. Meanw...

Despite many complaints that I don't travel, I have been to Brooklyn. See?

 Lina decided not to fly back to Rio today, 9/11. Just as well, since she still has a lot of shopping and packing to do. I told her she...

Ixnay on einer-way. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone Location: Broadway,New York,United States

photograph by Catherine Scarlett Lauren Durett Andrews Jackson Ahem. The house next door proceeds apace. Looming rather? Alas, my poor v...

New Jersey looks like heaven on a day like this. It's ten degrees cooler in New York than it is in Block Island, but I'm sure even...

My friend Bill (left) initiates a pal into the red sock society. Lately, the purchase of such socks has become an obsession—an affordable ...

On my endless quest for heirloom tomatoes (which apparently runs in the family, see my daughter's tomatoes as crack entry), I head...

Every spring, with hope in our hearts, we plant a few flowers and vegetables in Block Island and in Missouri, prune and drown the plants o...