November 9, 2019 at 6:42 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Filipino Writers, Links, Places, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: California, memories, Menlo Park, Redwood City, Saturday, Stanford
Love this week’s Photo a Week Challenge.
Self is heading home soon. Here are three pictures she took just before she left on her latest trip:
Kepler’s Books and Magazines, Menlo Park, California: Self read here when her first book came out, ages and ages and ages ago.
Courthouse Square, Redwood City, California: This has been her home for almost as long as she’s lived in America. It’s one of the most vibrant, ethnically-mixed places on the Peninsula.
Stanford University, which made of self a writer.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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November 3, 2019 at 10:30 am (Fan Fiction, Filipino Writers, Food and Drink, Links, Places, Sundays, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: California, Everlark, Manila, Menlo Park, photography, restaurants, The Philippines
P. A. Moed quotes Kim Hunter:
. . . emotions come through much stronger in black and white. Color is distracting in a way, it pleases the eye but it doesn’t necessarily reach the heart.
Domestic Terminal, Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Manila: September 2019
Sitting at an Outdoor Table, Café Borrone, Menlo Park, California: August 2019
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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November 2, 2019 at 8:15 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Explorers, Links, Places, Recommended, Weather)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, England, Ireland, Liverpool, museums, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Viveka on my guilty pleasures has the most beguiling photographs on this week’s Photo-a-Week Challenge: ATMOSPHERIC. So inspiring!
Thank you, Nancy Merrill, for the prompt: Share a photo (or two or three) with a distinct atmosphere.
Here are a few of self’s atmospheric shots.
Liverpool Docks, yesterday:
Park in front of IMMA (Ireland Museum of Modern Art, Dublin):
Dublin, park in front of IMMA, last Tuesday, 29 October 2019
The TGC at Annaghmakerrig, where self spent October:
Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Republic of Ireland, last week of October
What is it about the Fall? It’s becoming self’s favorite season to travel.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 24, 2019 at 12:16 pm (Links, Traveling)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, Cee Neuner, Ireland, seasons, transitions, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Seriously love this prompt, from Cee Neuner: TEXTURES.
Reminds self of the thing she enjoys most about FALL.
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October 24, 2019 at 6:18 am (Calls, Family, Links, Recommended)
Tags: causes, medicine, politics
NOTE: Lest you confuse this with Ivanka’s Global Women’s Initiative WHICH DOES NOTHING, the Global Fund for Women has existed in Menlo Park for decades, and provided small grants to women establishing their own businesses, from small villages in India and Africa, to women’s clinics, all over the world.
22 October 2019
No politician should come between a patient and their doctor, no matter what country they live in — but that’s exactly what the Trump administration has done. This is about health and rights — which transcend partisanship and borders.
One of Trump’s first actions as President was to reinstate the devastating global gag rule, which denies funding to international organizations working on global health if they provide abortion service or even referrals. This means that 26 million women and families worldwide are denied access to contraception, cancer screenings, STI treatment, and safe abortion services. And just last month, the same laws were expanded to the United States under Title X, which will prevent millions of women from being able to access affordable reproductive healthcare.
Global Fund for Women supports women’s rights organizations that are expanding legal and safe abortion access for women and girls, and funds feminist organizations that are documenting the impact of the global gag rule.
You can read more about this excellent organization, here.
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October 20, 2019 at 12:06 pm (Artists and Writers, Family, Filipino Writers, Flowers, Links, Places, Relatives, Sundays, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, birthday, Garden, happiness, Ireland, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Layered landscape.
“You can include images of buildings, landscapes, seascapes, clouds . . . ”
The prompt was so interesting!
Here are self’s takes on LAYERED.
- Worktable in her writing studio at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre: layered in books and papers
- Layered plantings at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre:
- Layers of purple, her daughter-in-law’s favorite color. Bought her this bouquet on her birthday in September.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 18, 2019 at 6:20 pm (Artists and Writers, Filipino Writers, Great First Lines, Links, Philippine History, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: essay, Fridays, The Philippines, websites
“Lately, my preoccupation with names has become an obsession.”
— Penelope V. Flores, Professor Emeritus at San Francisco State University
Read the rest of her interesting article, How Filipinos Got Their Surnames, in Filipinas Magazine, here.
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October 13, 2019 at 9:45 am (destinations, Eavesdropping, Holidays, Links, Niece, Places, Relatives, Sundays, Traveling)
Tags: memories, Prague
HAVE YOUR CAMERA READY AND JUST SHOOT.
— Leya, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge # 67
Prague, May 2019
Irene (self’s niece) and Martin (tour guide) crossing the Charles Bridge, our first day in Prague.
Street Performers, Prague, Last Week of May 2019
Prague Castle, Last Week of May 2019
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October 9, 2019 at 12:56 pm (anthologies, Artists and Writers, Calls, Explorers, Filipino Writers, Links, Publishers, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: experimental, inspiration, Just published, Literary Magazines, news, websites
And the results are out now.
Read. Read. Read.
Thank you forever, Lillian Howan, for soliciting a piece.
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October 9, 2019 at 10:00 am (Family, Food and Drink, Links, postaday, Relatives)
Tags: art, Cee Neuner, Garden, memories, nostalgia, Redwood City, summer
It’s been a while since self has done Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. So happy to join the challenge this week: CIRCLES, CURVES, AND ARCHES.
Dropped by Diane Varner’s El Granada studio, about a month ago. She’s growing succulents!
Self’s Plum Tree in August, 2019
Cleaning Out Closet in Son’s Room, Found These Old Toys!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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