claudia's surf city

  To recap, I drove from the Hudson River Valley through the Shenandoah Valley to the Coosa River Valley. I hydroplaned through the rains of...

 Having internet trouble, but I am safe and sound at Jan's in Alabama (just uphill from the sign). Will try to update as I move around!

  Barbara brought me beautiful peonies. Katie brought me beautiful roses. All this in the couple days before I hit the road! Katie convinced...

  I notice that I tend to sit in my seat and take pictures from there. This is not actually a good thing. If I were instructing a young phot...

Two Harvard guys, a Georgetown grad and a Vassar girl—all ex-Time Inc.ers—met in a kitchen. Who got the most air time?  

 There used to be special people whose job was to go into war zones and state houses and theaters and private homes and wild places to bring...

Some events other than birthdays mark the years. A school year finished for Hannah and Chris and their kids (phew). A junior prom for their ...

Whenever the weather is nice, New Yorkers are out and about. Walking the streets or taking public transportation can be joy enough in the su...

  "Oy've niver delivered bloons befo', " he said, in what I took at the time to be an Australian accent. "It's no...

Never a dull moment in the city that has been slumbering but is now awake. Can you find the building pictured below in the picture above? It...

  Did Ed pick the place to match his outfit? No, he picked the place because it's his local, and he likes the owner. And the waiter. And...

Off I went to the opthamologist. Good news! My prescription has not changed in the past two years, and my cataracts are not much worse. Bad ...

As I go about NYC on my medical rounds, I have checked many famous buildings. The Chrysler Building, Grand Central, Empire State. I saw the ...

The sun came out, and it finally got warm on Block Island, encouraging Isaac to go on the road hollering, "If you got lemons, make lemo...

Hard to believe that just a week before, Ed had his head screwed down (hence the bindi) and the back of his skull removed. He said the docto...

Hannah and Chris got the house ready, and we are open for business. The first tenant arrived this week, hopefully to better weather than Deb...

  There we go on the ferry. Chris took this picture from my bedroom window. Water pored through the portholes, and Debby feared for her life...

Fighting with the fighting fish?  

 Even now, they are opening Ed's skull to take out a tumor on his brain. "I feel like a soft boiled egg," he said. The funny b...

 Edie Blane's memoir of life on Block Island back in the day before indoor plumbing has finally come out. Those of us who have heard her...