SUMMERRRR!

It's on---the summer roller derby we call the surfing beach. While it's good to see so many faces not seen since the end …

The Chocolate Train and Gruyere Castle

It began as a simple quest to find out how to find a castle which at one stage many generations back had been connected with my w…

The return of the evening session

For the past week or so Lake Ontario's the only body of water I've seen---yeah, beautiful, and yes it has waves, and I be…

A note to the cyberstalkers

You may have been wondering why I haven't deleted the latest comments by the twelve-year-olds-in-forty-year-old-bodies who ro…

Surfing and...

Today was a totally unexpected, unplanned surf session. The kind where you wake up, look out the window, and rearrange your plans…

Not a girl anymore

It was foggy out today, and by the time I got close enough to assess the waves, I could see they were bigger than they had looked…

POOP, no, shit, no, crap

Today was my first time in the water in nearly a month. At first I thought I had completely forgotten how to surf, which would be…

The (non) Surfer's Prayer

Dear Ocean, Thank you for always being there, no matter what. I know that (almost) every day of my life you are offering me some …

When time just stops

What is that song about time stopping? I can hear it but can't hear enough of it to remember what or who it is. It goes like.…

Back in New York

Today was my first day back surfing in New York. I arrived back in time for the biggest snowstorm of the winter---1 foot of snow …

The skurf blog

I think I'll just say that the afternoon I spent out at Cowell's in Santa Cruz was one of the most miserable surf days of…

Sewage, seaweed and seals

I'm in California halfway through my skurfing (skiing and surfing) trip. So far the snow has been much more impressive than t…