claudia's surf city

  She was behind me in the checkout line at the grocery store.     "Love your T-shirt," I said. "Can I take your picture?...

There's somebody dying across the way It happens to be a beautiful day I don't think she wants to stay Thre's somebody dying acr...

  The fumes are so strong that the bugs are passing out. But somehow I've convinced myself that it's easier than mopping. And let me...

  I love to see a man in my kitchen. Especially this man. He brings intelligence, skill, food and wine to the table. Yes, we had leftovers, ...

The itsy bitsy spider crawled up upon my arm I didn't feel it then but it had done me harm  Out came a welt that didn't go away So n...

  It started like this. An armadillo, one of four identical quadruplets, jumped up as the headlights hit it. Apparently this is how the noct...

I could wax poetic about the towns I passed (Brilliant), the signs I saw (Custom Bait, Trump), and the rivers I crossed (Tallahatchee, Missi...

  For a while, Camilla has been contemplating island life. She has seen a number of issues she would like addressed, and decided to write to...

  I have had more visitors than usual in the past two weeks. One of the best was Kate Knapp, who visits only to paint when the weather is in...

  Word on the scabrous potato (or as Dugan calls it, the syphilitic potato, and he should know being a former medic during the Vietnam war):...

     It started with the potato. I was clearing out of NYC, and I could not bring myself to throw away this potato. It can't be eaten, b...

In my apartment (I'm assuming that everyone reading this has been there) you have to press your nose against the glass to see the river....

  Some fairly sleepy bunnies greeted Easter morning today. Hannah had done a brilliant treasure hunt for the baskets. Clues:     Hop hop hop...

Cut to the chase: He's ok. When I got there all seemed normal. Ed was asleep in his room, as is usually the case.   I was slow on the up...