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 14, 2019 at 5:37 am (Flowers, Links)
Tags: flower photography, Garden, happiness, Redwood City, Saturday, seasons, summer
Self was inspired by viveka‘s fabulous post on this challenge on her blog, my guilty pleasures.
The prompt is from Nancy Merrill.
Hydrangeas on Self’s Front Porch
U.S. First Class Stamp
Razzleberri Fringe Flower, Backyard, March 2019
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July 10, 2019 at 4:37 pm (Flowers, Links)
Tags: California, Cee Neuner, flower photography, Garden, happiness, seasons, summer
It’s always a good day when self can participate in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. This week, it’s 5+ Items:
Simply make sure there are at least 5 items in your photo.
Without further ado:
Backyard, Yesterday Evening Around 8 p.m.
Front Porch: Self has about six potted hydrangeas.
One More from the Front Porch
Love summer. Love flowers.
Stay tuned.
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July 10, 2019 at 1:38 am (Artists and Writers, Filipino Writers, Links, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: Asian American Writers, Literary Magazines, poetry, websites
Luisa Igloria In Her Kingdom
Excerpt from Passing Inspection (First posted in Via Negativa, 22 June 2019)
When my father’s only sister migrated to East
Lansing, Michigan forty years ago, she hand-carried
the x-ray film of her lungs in a large brown Manila
envelope, as proof she didn’t have tuberculosis
or any other malignant respiratory condition
that in the US CDC should be aware of. She came
back to visit only thrice; we never saw her again,
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July 1, 2019 at 8:26 am (Links)
Tags: advice, elections, politics, websites, wisdom
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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 17, 2019 at 4:06 pm (Family, Links, Philippine History, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Bacolod, memoir, memories, Mondays, The Philippines, work-in-progress, World War II
Below, page 1 of a very, very old work-in-progress. Self was clearing her closets when she stumbled across the hard copy yesterday.
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY, DEAR DEPARTED DAD.
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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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June 13, 2019 at 6:46 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Filipino Writers, Links, Memoirs, Personal Bookshelf, Recommended)
Tags: California, history
Excerpt, Chapter XXIII, America Is In the Heart, a memoir by Carlos Bulosan:
When I went to the kitchen to wash dishes to pay for my food, the woman threw her hands up and said: “That is enough! Go home! Come again!”
I went again and again. But I had no home that winter. One of my companions died of tuberculosis, so Mariano burned the cabin and left town. The nights were cold. Once in a while I could hear church bells ringing, and I would say to myself: “If you can listen long enough to those bells you will be safe. Try to listen again and be patient.” They were my only consolation, those bells. And I listened patiently, and that spring came with a green hope.
I went to Seattle to wait for the fishing season in Alaska.
And that was where Carlos Bulosan died, a victim of tuberculosis.
Stay tuned.
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June 4, 2019 at 6:48 pm (Family, Food and Drink, Links, Places, Recommended, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: Cee Neuner, favorites, humor, London, Miami University Press, restaurants
Self just got back from a trip to Ireland and England.
The last week of May, she met up with Amy Toland of Miami University Press and took her to her favorite London restaurant, Chez Nous, 22 Hanway Street. Self has been coming here since 2014, Julie is an amazing cook!
Julie, chef of Chez Nous on Hanway Street in London; Amy Toland, Managing Editor of Miami University Press
This cheeky picture of Harry and Meghan was hanging on the wall of a wee cheesecake shop on Drury Street:
Son was in London for work. Self spent time with her daughter-in-law, Jennie. Here’s Jennie in a London cab:
Love the prompt from Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge!
Stay tuned.
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