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Art by Matthew Park for my short story “The Freeze” The unnamed narrator tries to calm herself after a post-nuclear night. Setting: San Francisco The opening: Redwood, Oak, Laurel, Manzanita, Pine. Redwood, Oak, Laurel, Manzanita, Pine. Redwood, Oak, Laurel, Manzanita, Pine. Thanksgiving was just a week ago. Posting for Becky’s November Squares Challenge. This is
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I knew this would happen: I knew I would get to the Mildred section of Of Human Bondage, and one of two things would happen: I would either love Maugham’s dissection of a masochistic relationship and read 300 more pages, or I would say, I’m satisfied with the 300 pages I’ve already read, I’ll move
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Skateboard Rack Outside Stanford University’s Green Library Posting for Becky’s November Squares Challenge.
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A Calder Fish The De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park Posting for Becky’s November Squares Challenge.
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Egidio, this week’s LAC host, decided to re-visit a prompt by Amy of The World Is a Book. He gives different pathways to posting about landscapes on his blog, Through Brazilian Eyes. Check them out! My landscape are woods, on the grounds of Yaddo, an artists retreat in upper New York State, right by the
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Thank you to Becky for hosting another Squares month! Below, she explains the prompt: Last April, I was in Seville. An old friend from the San Francisco Bay Area, who’d moved her whole family to Seville, and had lived there the past five years, was returning to the States. I’d kept putting off my visit
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This tree grows right in downtown Palo Alto.
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The host of One Word Sunday is Debbie. River Mill, Downpatrick, Northern Ireland (April 2025)
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The host of this lens-artists challenge is Egidio/Through Brazilian Eyes. Scrolling through his gallery, I see that a quote accompanies each picture. There are many wonderful quotes, but my favorites are by Paulo Coelho and Fernando Passoa. Check them out here. Sharing some pictures I took when I was visiting Hampstead Heath, in May. In
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One red T-shirt! Posting for Becky’s July 2025 Squares Challenge: Simply Red.
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Paris by Night Posting for Becky’s November Squares Challenge.
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He had written for two years, amid incredible hardships, denying himself all the pleasures of life which had attracted him to Paris, fighting with starvation for art’s sake, determined that nothing should hinder his great achievement. The effort was heroic. — Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham, p. 232
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Who am I talking about? FANNY PRICE. Since I read the Mother of All Cliff Notes, otherwise known as Introduction by Robert Calder, I have set boundaries: I prepare myself not to get too vested in this character. Still, she fascinates. She is disagreeable to everyone, despite being ugly (The narrator describes her as “ugly”
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Avila Beach, Central California Coast Posting for Becky’s November 2025 Squares Challenge.
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Another from my trip to Seville last year. I originally intended to stay at Hotel Alfonso XIII, am so glad I didn’t. Not that there’s anything wrong with Hotel Alfonso XIII, but the place I found was just around the corner from my friend’s place, and felt like a real neighborhood. Posting for Becky’s November
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Am about a fourth of the way in, and am enjoying this very leisurely coming-of-age tale. I haven’t read any W. Somerset Maugham in a very long time — probably, decades. I wasn’t particularly looking forward to reading this novel. It’s soooo long, and I knew the narrator had a club foot (it sounded depressing),
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Marianne Villanueva 