claudia's surf city

When the redbuds bloom, I think of the Oklahoma City bombing. They're blooming, too, on the site where 126 people were killed by a hom...

Lost in the Ozarks again I wanted to see a man about some wood. Actually I was hoping to see his sister, who has a beard , according to ...

For cat lovers everywhere. Found art. Reproductive art: a new press from the West Plains Daily Quill At Washington University, Bill...

Just about every year (Feel free to check back! I've been doing this dumb blog for my 20 readers for over a decade now! Not that you w...

Well actually, more local black and white.

Preacher and wife dining at the 11 Point Cafe, Thomasville, Mo. The sexism rack at a gas station, Birch Tree, Mo. I always get into...

Penumbral lunar eclipse begins. Not sure what that is. Let's round up a few things. For starters, there's Hannah's new herba...

The sacred and the propane The workplace (when it's cold out) View of Main Street. Cafe, left, Bear's house, right.

There is a small matter of a leak at about a gallon every six hours or so. But, hey, I have water! And the floor is cement! And I can take...

Armadillo was not armored against death. Bevy of ladybugs halos every light. It's always an adventure opening up the Goose for ...

Sunset over Columbus, Ohio. Now safe and sound at the Goose.

Top o' the mornin' to ye. Yes, it's the first St. Patrick's Day since the discovery that we're more Italian than Irish...

 It used to be Hannah in the pink tights and the tight hair, facing the mean girls and sometimes the mean teachers in Discipline Class,...

The Block Island brothers Town Beach Yes, that's my ex-husband and ex brother-in-law—or, as I call them, family—keeping track o...

The famous kitchen table has a new companion, a large leather wing chair that dwarfs everything else in the room. I bought it for Ed (and ...

Great NYC photograph by Debby Gobert Adam Cohen was interviewed about his book Imbeciles on Fresh Ai r. There was also a review yesterd...

Agent Diabolique, with a piece of my hide in his mouth.Was this a "righteous bite?" Some of you may remember the devil cat ...

The feisty Ana Santana The story of the brake repair was long. It involved a pregnant daughter, a missed ferry, a rain storm, a late-...

Remember film and telexes and typewriters and carbon sets and pay phones? Adam Cohen on the old-style research for his book A f...

You leave home and go somewhere else, by plane, train or automobile. Train. You check into your hotel, motel, or a friend's plac...