claudia's surf city

Since this is the West Side (though not the upper west side today, thankfully,  since it's 15 degrees there right now), sunsets ar...

 We stood in the middle of the night in the middle of the swinging bridge over the Hanapepe River arguing about guns. Having been raised...

 This is Kingdome, named after its builder/owner, Jo King. You can see the lanai (balcony) where I am writing behind that palm tree. An...

Kapu. Keep out.  This is Polihale, the end of the road that goes around most of the island. From Polihale through Kalalau to Ke'e...

 Stage the aloha shirts, the bathing suits, the shorts and underwear and drugs. And computer. Pack everything. Wake up at 3 ayem and trave...

Product as design. And vice versa, in the case of the copper mug that Donna's Moscow Mule was served in. Does every bar in New York...

Why didn't I stay out to watch the eclipse? See above.

Trying to grapple with the fact that my former (and always) husband (at right, above) turned 75 yesterday. Dreamed about him all night. We...

 It made me very sad to see these poinsettias being thrown away. I would have taken them to add to my collection of strays but that I'...

Not sure why an empty tour bus was idling outside the gym, but I liked the creepy gaze of dude behind the no parking sign and the Mondrian...

How many times have I walked by this animal (eland? antelope?) on the gates of the Apthorp wihout seeing it? I have lived on the Upper Wes...

Boro Manhattan The snowflakes here may be fake (fake snowflakes!), but it has been getting a bit chilly. not like it will when the polar...

Jose and Ana Can't resist reposting this pic of the newlyweds. They work so hard most of the time that it's great to see them re...

 My beautiful Ana Santana, who I have known for two decades, and her husband and the father of their five children, Jose, got hitched a...

Home surroundings Does it look cold? It isn't that cold, except for the 40 mph wind. Then it's weeping cold. And we're not e...

And then my sister-in-law arrived from Santa Fe for a weekend of theater and took me out one night to see Fabulation, or the Re-Education ...

View of Manhattan from tanker Mary A. Whalen  It looks like I've been going all over the place. But really, what I've been doing...

 Thirty-seven years ago, in Chicago, Illinois, I gave birth to a beautiful Buddha Baby, aka Boo. I wanted to name her Albertine (I was in ...

 Everybody loves Oscar. Peter, his grandson Benjamin, and Jamie. And me, of course, though no, I don't want a dear little doggie. ...

 There is Christmas in the land! Elsewhere. Camilla and Isaac are celebrating in Providence. Douglas and Lynn and Simon are in Block Islan...