claudia's surf city

Bear's house, across the street from me, was destroyed. It was taken down . The street in front of my house, once the flood water...

"Sleep, Sex, The Bed," my pal Ed proposes a story positing that everything changes in life on the inside. Almost everyone ...

On Saturday, I left Erin's at the ass crack and headed to Providence. Everybody was asleep, and I had to ring the doorbell. PS, that i...

Leaving the north woods at the crack of morn for the island, hoping to evade the police. Will stop in Providence en route to attempt to fi...

Well, there is a wave of hope running through the family. My brother Ben is spreading love with his new song Universal Love and his grand...

@JaneEvelynAtwood  Jane made this video for herself, as a record of the process and placement of her photographs. It is raw footage that sh...

The fritillaria, which my sister calls "the Dr. Seuss plant," is blooming. The birds are going insane. And second homeowners lik...

Madison hangs out on the roof between on-line classes. Erin awaits her next editing job.  The house is big enough that we don't...

The daffodils and hyacinths are blooming, but they woke up this spring morning to this.

Camilla plays piano for me on Face Time Can you imagine spending the next ten months with this hopper (above)? Providence has...

It has been an after-Easter tradition for a while to put Peeps in the microwave. I mean, what else do you do with leftover Peeps—nobody eat...

We have Poppy to amuse us We have an olive tree to amuse us. It came in the jar like this! We have a 2,000-piece jigsaw puzzle, ...

Todd Hochberg, 1978 This goes out to my three main men in memory of John Prine.    For Robert, we blow up the TV with Spanish Pipedream...

Camilla, Woonsocket, 2012

Madison and Eva and the bears, 2005 Madison and Eva and the bears, 2020

So Ed (war correspondent in Brooklyn) texts to me (writer in Massachusetts) and Chien-Chi (photographer in Austria), "When this i...

Flip grabs his laptop and prepares to go to his virtual dojo in the basement. He is going for his (black belt) fourth degree, or dan, whic...

Photographers all over the world are stuck at home. It may be harder for them than the rest of us, since documentary work requires travel—...

I think this is the river behind Bill's house. Bill?  Franklin and his dog, Mercy, await breakfast at the Goose. The picture was ...

Erin and Flip head out to deliver groceries from the food bank to senior citizens' housing. They have been told that there is a case o...