July 22, 2019 at 11:15 pm (destinations, Filipino poetry, Filipino Writers, Philippine History, Recommended)
Tags: Philippine History, poetry, The Philippines
Like the Molave was a long poem in eight parts, published 1940:
The little brown brother opens his eyes to the glaring sound of
the Star Spangled;
dreams to the grand tune of the American dream;
is proud to be part of the sweeping American magnitude;
strains his neck upon the rising skyscraper of American
ideals, and on it hinges faith, hope, aspiration;
sings the American epic of souls conceived in liberty;
quivers with longing brotherhood of men created equal;
envisions great visions of the land across the sea where
dwell his strong brothers.
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July 22, 2019 at 2:26 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Family, Filipino Writers, Flowers, Links, Places, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: fairy tales, flash fiction, Hotel Amerika, inspiration, Literary Magazines, Manila, Mendocino, The Philippines
Thanks once again to viveka for inspiring self to try posting to the current Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: DREAMY.
Self is a short story writer (though some of her stories are over 50 pages!).
- This Red Riding Hood Lamp followed her from one childhood home to another; self’s parents gave it to her when she was about five.
She brought it to the States with her, when she left for grad school. And here it is now, in self’s home in Redwood City, California.
It was the perfect gift — one that nurtured her imagination and encouraged her to dream.
- Here’s an image from the cover of Hotel Amerika, a literary magazine (based in Chicago) which published self’s flash, Ghosts. She loves the surreal, and so she loves the image.
Hotel Amerika, Vol. 8 No. 2 (Spring 2010)
- Finally, a landscape absolutely made for dreaming: Mendocino.
Mendocino Headlands: April 21, 2018
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 21, 2019 at 5:36 am (Books, destinations, Filipino Writers, Food and Drink, Memoirs, Places, Recommended, Weather, Women Writers)
Tags: Asian American Writers, English writers, Kepler's, memoir, Menlo Park, novel, restaurants, Saturday, summer
Bookstores are fine places.
Kepler’s Books, Menlo Park: That woman is very wisely dressed.
Staff Picks, Kepler’s Books
More Staff Picks! Leanne Shapton’s mother is Pinay.
The order line at Café Borrone, around 10 a.m.
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June 18, 2019 at 11:02 pm (destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Places, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: Cee Neuner, desserts, indulgences, London, memories, Prague
It’s a good day whenever self can participate in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. The week’s Fun Foto Challenge is 2 ITEMS OR THE NUMBER 2.
Here are a couple of pics with ‘2 Items.’
Whipped Cheesecake, Drury Lane, London, May 2019
Bridge Near Prague’s Jewish Quarter (No time to look up the name of the bridge, self will just wing it!), May 2019
These two windows were directly across self’s in Hotel Aria, Prague, May 2019
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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June 16, 2019 at 7:44 pm (destinations, Family, Links, Niece, Places, Sundays, Traveling)
Tags: discoveries, memories, Prague, spring, vacation, websites
Self is joining a new Photo Challenge: Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #50 : TREES.
Thanks to viveka of My Guilty Pleasures for making self aware of this photo challenge.
The pictures below are from a trip to Prague that she took in late May with her niece, Irene.
1. Trees, Prague, May 2019 (next to the Spanish Synagogue)
2. Last Sunday in May 2019: Walking by the National Theatre, Prague
3. Afternoon Cruise Along the Vltava River
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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May 17, 2019 at 10:24 am (Books, destinations, Personal Bookshelf, Recommended, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: Cornwall, Fowey, Fridays, Jane Austen, novel, reading lists
Finished Persuasion, on to Northanger Abbey:
It’s been a very stimulating week at the Fowey Festival of Arts and Literature. Hopefully self can do this again.
She bought her copy of Northanger Abbey from Bookends, which is a sweet, sweet corner bookstore in Fowey.
From the Introduction is by P. D. James:
- Catherine’s days are spent in thinking about Henry Tilney, when and how they may next meet, and looking out eagerly for any glimpses of him. She is deeply in love, a love which is reciprocated, though more mildly, by Henry, whose affection is based on her obvious love for him. He introduces her to his sister Eleanor and the two young women immediately like each other and become friends.
Stay tuned.
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May 16, 2019 at 4:49 pm (Conversations, destinations, Holidays, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Fridays, memories, Paris
For only her second post participating in Nadia Merrill’s Photo-a-Week Challenge, she has to go back, waaaaay back, to 30 December 2017. She’d just spent one of the loneliest Christmases ever, in Paris. Lo and behold, when it was time for her to leave, she realized she’d come to feel comfortable in Paris (after spending two weeks holed up in a hotel just a few blocks from the Arc de Triomphe, where a very discreet hotel staff never asked her a single personal question, and only interfered with her routine once, when they insisted she go to the Louvre on Christmas Day — No lines, Madame!)
This week’s Photo-a-Week Challenge is RAINDROPS.
She thinks that’s what’s going on in these pictures. Or mebbe she was just too tired and it was too early in the morning and her hand was shaking. She was in a cab headed to the airport, where she was going to fly, first, to London, and then to the Philippines.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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May 15, 2019 at 7:20 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Personal Bookshelf, Places, Recommended, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: Cornwall, discoveries, England, English writers, Fowey, happiness, Jane Austen, novel, reading lists
Up one flight of stairs in Fowey Hall there is a telescope. Self tried looking through the it but couldn’t see anything. Ah well.
What synchronicity, though, with the cover of Persuasion (She bought her copy from the London Review Bookshop, a few weeks ago)
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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May 15, 2019 at 11:42 am (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Personal Bookshelf, Places, Recommended, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: Cornwall, Daphne du Maurier, discoveries, England, English writers, Fowey, literary festivals, novel
Self took a walk to Bookends of Fowey, 4 South Street. And such a dear little bookshop it is. So many books, of so much variety, all found in one little corner of Fowey!
4 South Street, Fowey: Bookends
Self never forgets, not for one moment, that she is here because of Daphne du Maurier:
She’s made up her mind to buy one of the below. Not more than one because she is still traveling and it is a bear to tote books on/off buses and trains!
In keeping with the spirit of du Maurier, she thinks her one precious book purchase should be a novel. A novel by a woman.
On her Festival Survey Form, she only made one comment: Points for including such a variety of women authors. Keep it that way!
Stay tuned.
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May 14, 2019 at 11:11 pm (destinations, Places, Traveling)
Tags: Cornwall, discoveries, Fowey
The harbor of Fowey:
WOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!
And, just in case you didn’t get the point, there is a giant model of a sailboat on the first floor landing of the hotel and, at one end of the first floor corridor, a telescope pointed towards the sea.
Stay tuned.
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