claudia's surf city

I'm in NY now, but there are these traces of attempts at capturing the fog and the brilliance of the day. Meanwhile, I'm still sna...

Vacation was already in the air as they waited for their flight to Cancun. The bathing suits and sandals were packed and there was nothing...

Really after Like, last I saw Barring another flood, this is after for now. A year ago tomorrow, the Eleven Point River w...

There are worse days and places to be in bed with a cold. It's rainy and chilly outside, and the fireplace is on inside. The sound of ...

 A few things happened. Got the water turned on at CSC. Had Hannah et all. Unfortunately, as I turned on the dishwasher after dinner for t...

 Yes, this is the Brooklyn Bridge, headed towards Brooklyn. Just want to put that on the record, since I get so many complaints. Yes, I ha...

After listening to the bullets of rain and the lightening and the sirens and the crashes, probably of trash cans blowing into cars, all ni...

The last meetings are today, and we leave tomorrow ayem. But don't be thinking that all we do is go to banks and lawyer's offices....

 Our tenant invited us in to see the changes she had made to our house. She hadn't made many—mostly just moved furniture around. The p...

 This is the first time I've seen a Weimaraner at a botanica. I had gone to fetch the tepezcohuite (mimosa bark) ointment that many fr...

 San Miguel has become the place for weathy city people to hold destination weddings. I have seen as many as three in one day, with throng...

Hang a left at the Virgin de Guadlupe in the alley, and you will find our casita, behind the near invisible door in the shadows. Inside is...

 And flashback to last Sunday, when it was Easter. Here is Milla in a dress designed by Hannah for herself when she was a child and sewn b...

 It must be an age thing. Seems like everybody I know has been going through books and photographs and reaching out to old friends. Laura,...

 They live in a tatty blue velvet covered album. All but a couple loose pictures were made at Sparhawk's Studio in West Randolph, V...

Easter bonnet, Block Island, 2017 Egg hunt, Block Island, 2017 Often, we're in Block Island for Easter. But this year with the ...

Some of you—I know who you are—do not look at Facebook. And so, for those who are not up to date, Hannah is selling her "tiny hous...

Books for girls Books for boys I don't even want to think about  how many books I have in all my houses. But right here in the ...

 Two years ago this month, Bear's house, while not in the best possible shape, still stood on its concrete pad. Then last April a seve...