claudia's surf city

  I have long wanted one of Kate Knapp's garden pix (you can see her blog here ). So finally I made up my mind I had to have one.  I dec...

Indoor/outdoor games. This is what Isaac likes to do on Facetime: Try on different heads and watch himself. Interaction is marginal.  Howeve...

 The sun is coming inside at different angles. It makes me think of spring—even though we haven't rightly had winter yet—and revels. And...

I wasn't really surprised that I could be found by the Bernie anywhere website in NYC  (link here)   A little more surprised that it cou...

 How did you sleep last night? Did you wake up this morning thinking everything might be okay? It's amazing you can even see this pictur...

  The evening began serenely. Uber-ed up to Da Bronx at golden hour. Stood on line under a waxing crescent moon and watched the lights of po...

  But of course, neither of these (obviously assigned) essays are really truthful, because the most important person in these kids' live...

  I mean, who can deal with national news today? I guess the wigmaker to Broadway is finally moving out of the house that was on the market ...

  I need more ear candles. You know, those woo-woo things that are dangerous and don't work? Except that I am convinced that they do. I ...

 I'm not surprised. This is, after all, the good old US of A, and a frontier anarchy is in the nation's DNA. Not to mention frontier...

 Today this by Bill Dugan makes me think of Stacey Abrams. It looks like she delivered the goods in Georgia, all right. Still in suspense, b...

So I'm having this argument with my neighbor. She says NYC is over. Without Broadway and ballet and restaurants, no more New York. Of co...

  I don't ordinarily celebrate New Year's Eve. On my most memorable one 39 years ago I was in labor and at the hospital. They told m...

  Happy birthday to my kind, smart, literate, beautiful daughter. And to think, in a year she will be 40!

Not sure exactly what's going on here—yard sale?—but I know when it's going on. That baby is 50 now. That's my ex husband, Dougl...

 It was, with two photographers present, along with one amateur and one on the rise, a much photographed event. Had any noteworthy subjects ...

  I asked Chris to take this pic of Isaac with his new ("nonbinary") doll in Camilla's new doll bathtub. But in fact, my Chris...