claudia's surf city

Typecasting? . . .happy All Hallow's Eve, Wiccan new year (Samhain), Diwali, Day of the Dead and otherwise potent holidays I don...

My guess is that one of these days this Staten Island-cum-Jersey girl will bow to the inevitable and move to Rhode Island in a cottage...

The voter, with granddaughters Eva and Madison (whose birthday is today) "Do you think maybe once you're over ninety you aren...

Artist Bill Dugan poses in my portrait chair at the Goose in Missouri. Bill and Carla visited from Missouri. Bill was highly ...

Elaine Rivera loved people: “Two eyes a nose and a mouth—and all so different!” She loved all kinds of people, from the flower lady in he...

It's going to take most of my energy to keep warm over the next week or so. But there are compensations. . .

 Today is the day when Hannah goes live on Facebook with Wear Your Music's auction of a Paul McCartney guitar string bracelet. Here a...

Could not resist another picture of the waves in front of the house—breaking right on the dune. Meanwhile, there is a lot of catchup and ...

Indian summer arrives. I mean, Native American Summer. I have been remiss. Way remiss. There are reasons, which I will go into, mainly...

Ed today  This is my friend Ed, he of the maniacal laugh and blazing blue eyes and mind that runs too fast for his mouth. Happy birthday...

Today all of San Miguel has a fiesta in honor of its namesake. There are giant creepy puppets and these acrobats who climb a a pole erecte...

With all of her descendants

Rosio goes shopping on her new moto Erin guards mom's rest Today is the big day: Mom turns 90, and all her descendants are desc...

The first part of the party met up in the Dallas airport at the gate to Queretero. Then we met up with the rest at the airport in Quere...

Slack line Slack time

Skibo is the name of  a castle in Scotland that Andrew Carnegie bought and mde into a private golf club. It is also the name of this pl...

Complete with a great grandmother, three grandmothers and a grandfather, an uncle, parents, brother, cousins and a friends, Camilla celebr...

So John and Pam closed on their new place—a kind of waspy lodge-in-the-woods scene on the mainland with old money credentials. But the day...

Family: The saga begins.

Glenn, with Claudia Glenn Camilla and Isaac imitate the portrait. There is one favored spot for portraits in the NYC apartment, aka...