The weather’s a bit chilly. May stay in.
Posting for Travel with Intent’s Silent Sunday.
Category: Filipino Writers
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Main House, Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Republic of Ireland Posting for Wordless Wednesday
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Challenge coming to you via Debbie Smyth’s fantastic blog, Travel with Intent.
Self and the managing editor of Miami University Press, Amy Toland, somehow manage to meet up in London every May/June (with the exception of the lockdown years: 2020 and 2021).
Look at our BIG BIG smiles! And why shouldn’t we be smiling? It was June, and we were standing in front of the London Review Cakeshop in Bloomsbury! YAY for the memories!
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It’s in the latest issue of The Citron Review.
Notes from Hedwicka Cox, Fiction Editor, on the issue’s Fiction Selections:
- What is magic? Magic is dreaming. Magic is fantasy. Magic is speculative. When we think of magic, we think of the unreal, the ethereal.
So, yes, her story is about magic.
Self has another kind of tale, somewhat different in tone, which came out in Menacing Hedge earlier this year. It’s called Down.
She has another story coming out spring 2023, in J Journal. That one’s about a ship that discovers, completely by accident, a city at the bottom of the ocean.
Much love to all the editors of these hardworking little magazines, for giving her stories space to be shared. These stories are in a collection she’s been entering into contests. But they haven’t made it to the longlist, anywhere. Maybe they are just too different.
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- For the challenge this week, I am asking you to share images that focus on your journeys. Consider examples of historical modes of transportation if you happen to have some in your gallery, a horse-drawn wagon in Pennsylvania, or maybe an abandoned boat along the seashore.
— Journeys with Johnbo, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge # 215
Below: the bus self took from Belfast to Downpatrick, Northern Ireland
In April, self visited NI for the first time. She did a residency at River Mill, near Downpatrick. Crushed the writing: finished her horror story/alien invasion story, The Rorqual, and completely re-wrote a few others. Placed a story while she was still there: “Residents of the Deep,” coming soon in J Journal.
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Self will still post, though no more joining photo challenges, as WordPress informed her that she had exceeded her storage limit by 120%. This is a really, really long-lasting blog: when she started it, son was still in Cal Poly/San Luis Obispo. She doesn’t want to do what she did last year: She coughed up $300 just so WordPress wouldn’t keep threatening to take her blog down. This year, she paid $96 for the “premium” plan which just means she gets to keep her blog. But she’s not a business; who knows how much longer she’ll be able to keep this up.
Her quote of the day is from the latest issue of The Economist:
In the years to come, NATO armed forces will queue at the door of Ukraine’s general staff to learn from the commanders who halted the Russian army’s march on Kyiv and Odessa and inflicted more than 60,000 casualties in six months of war.
— Leaders, the economist, 20 august 2022Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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His name (Jobs) is listed on the patent for the white power brick used by the MacBook as well as its magnetic connector with its satisfying click.
—steve jobs, by walter isaascson, chapter twenty-six: design principles
My MacBook Air at the AWP Annual Conference in Philadelphia, March 2022
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All the writers are from two central Philippine islands: Negros (yes, that IS the name of one of the islands, thank you Spanish colonizers who named it after the locals, who were “Negros” — dark-skinned) and Siquijor.
Buglas was the pre-Spanish name for Negros.
It is edited by writers from the Dumaguete Writers Workshop.
Self’s story Dumaguete is in it, which renders her speechless. Just speechless!
Welcome from the Editors.
Submission Guidelines here.
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Wowee! What a Fun Foto Challenge. Thanks, Cee Neuner!
I love Cee’s gallery. I decided to copy her movement: from “wide view” to “micro”
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Can you believe it’s been eleven years? Self can’t believe it, either.
When the news first broke that he had died, she found herself in front of the Apple Store on University Avenue in downtown Palo Alto. People had left post-its on the glass, and bunches of flowers on the sidewalk.
She has four MacBook Airs, including the original model. The last time she saw her nieces and nephews, visiting from the Philippines (this was in the Jurassic), they found the first one in a drawer, lifted it out (It weighed about eight lbs) and said, “Tita, this belongs in a museum!” Har har har!
She brought the second MacBook Air on a trip to India 10 years ago. At the end of January, she was in Dharamsala. She was huddled on the bed under four blankets, teeth chattering. The wifi kicked out, she went running to the lobby, the two brothers who ran the inn grabbed her MacBook and ran off with it, self gave chase, mistaking their intentions. But no! They only wanted to examine it more closely: they looked under, over, marveled at its superlative slimness and weightlessness, and then another guest came down and then three men were staring at her MacBook Air and passing it around and . . .
APOLOGIES FOR THE DIGRESSION!
She’s just on the Introduction, but there. Are. So. Many. Stories.
Stay tuned.
Kanlaon 