October 18, 2017 at 9:37 pm (Artists and Writers, Links, Publishers, Recommended, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Literary Magazines, short story, Stanford
Thanks a bunch, Necessary Fiction, for all you do for the literary community. You’re a great web-zine! Self was first referred to you by Beth Coryell Alvarado, a fellow creative writing fellow in the Stanford University Creative Writing Program, and you published self’s short story, Witness, in February 2010.
An excerpt:
Witness (published in Necessary Fiction, 2/10/2010)
You were tired, that day. You were riding in a car with your daughter, Caroline, and Jay, her new husband, and they were arguing. They acted as though you weren’t there. Caroline swerved once, narrowly avoiding a collision. You bit your lip, you sighed, you rested your head back against the seat. The noises from the front continued, unabated.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 17, 2017 at 5:11 pm (Artists and Writers, Links, Publishers, Recommended, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: flash fiction, inspiration, Literary Magazines, speculative fiction, websites
With nods to Kafka. Kafka. Kafka.
Café Irreal is an online zine, edited by G. S. Evans and Alice Whittenburg, that has been in continuous publication since 1998 (Oh, kudos. Major kudos). Its focus is on writing about The Irreal.
They published self’s Appetites and The Secret Room.
The opening of Appetites:
- When she was a girl, she ate crab, bitter melon, rice soup. She loved milkfish, which at that time was still abundant. The cook, who was as dear to her as her own mother, served her glutinous rice cakes, salmon cured with tamarind salt, grilled squid stuffed with chorizo, the meat of young coconuts.
Food is life. Yes.
Stay tuned.
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October 16, 2017 at 5:29 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Family, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Places, Recommended, Relatives, Traveling)
Tags: Albuquerque, art, Cee Neuner, discoveries, Edinburgh, England, memories, Mondays, museums, music, websites
How SYW (Share Your World) Works:
Create your post answering the four questions below, then post a link to Cee Neuner’s blog in the comment box.
- If you had to move to a country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?
- What color would you like your bedroom to be?
- What makes you Happy? Make a list of things in your life that bring you joy.
- What inspired you or what did you appreciate this past week?
Here are self’s answers:
If you had to move to a country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?
The Philippines, since I grew up there.
England, because I adore theatre and everything related to. And because it’s an easy hop from there to my other favorite country: Ireland.
What color would you like your bedroom to be?
A deep red. The kind I first saw in Edinburgh, in 2012.
What makes you happy? Make a list of things in your life that bring you joy.
- Discovering new places
- Visiting museums
- Being with son, his wife Jennie, and their friends
- Writing
- Reading a good book
- Looking at flowers
What inspired you or what did you appreciate this past week?
Eating Bone Marrow Tapas at Mas Tapas y Vino on 2nd in downtown Albuquerque.
Haven’t had bone marrow in soooo long. Self loved it growing up in the Philippines.
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October 15, 2017 at 3:41 pm (Links, Flowers, Sundays)
Tags: websites, California, inspiration, Redwood City
Self has been enjoying participating in Cee Neuner’s Photo Challenges.
The Flower of the Day is happening through October.
For her second post on this Photo Challenge, here’s a close-up of one of the fading hydrangeas on her front porch:
Hydrangeas, Front Porch: October 2017
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 14, 2017 at 5:53 am (Artists and Writers, Dearest Mum, destinations, Family, Food and Drink, Links, Pianos, Places, postaday, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: art, Bath, England, Fridays, memories, museums, New York, Paris, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, Wordpress
Very interesting challenge from The Daily Post this week!
SCALE
Photography ” . . . is all about perspective, where and how you place other objects in the frame . . . ” — Erica V., The Daily Post
Here are some examples of SCALE: (1) at the Louvre, in front of the Mona Lisa (2) in Bath’s Royal Crescent, the entrance to Royal Crescent # 1 and (3) in New York’s Russian Tea Room, next to Carnegie Hall. Self’s first trip to New York City was with Dearest Mum, who once played at Carnegie Hall. This September, she took Dearest Mum, who’s now past 80, for lunch at the Russian Tea Room. We had the best time.
The Louvre, May 2017
Royal Crescent No. 1 (Royal Crescent Museum), Bath
The Russian Tea Room, 57th St., New York City (Next to Carnegie Hall): Dearest Mum took self here, her first time in New York City, decades ago. The place hasn’t changed a bit.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 12, 2017 at 3:11 pm (Flowers, Links, Plays)
Tags: Cal Shakes, California, Cee Neuner, memories, photography, Shakespeare, websites
For Cee Neuner’s Flower of the Day photo prompt:
A shot of the Orinda Hills, last month, as self was leaving Bruns Amphitheatre after watching Measure for Measure:
Flowers in the photograph are teensy. She thinks those are penstemons.
Pray the California wildfires cease.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 6, 2017 at 5:34 pm (Family, Food and Drink, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: California, farmers markets, happiness, memories, New York, postaday, postaweek, Sacramento, summer, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is PEDESTRIAN:
- What does PEDESTRIAN mean to you? Perhaps this is a great chance to go out and practice some street photography.
— Krista Stevens, The Daily Post
So, here are three street scenes. They’re not the greatest, but they certainly were street:
New York City: September 2017
Jennie, Son, and Self in the Claremont, CA Farmers Market: July 2017
Downtown Sacramento, CA: July 2017
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September 30, 2017 at 4:14 pm (Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: California, New York, postaday, postaweek, Saturday, Wordpress
Self loves windows. She really, really does.
Sitting by Window, In Reflective Mode
Watertower View, Chelsea District, New York City
Home, Redwood City, California
Other Windows:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 27, 2017 at 11:27 pm (Links, Places, Surprises, postaday)
Tags: California, New York, Palo Alto, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
Self loves windows in general. So she loves this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge: WINDOWS.
The prompt was to use the window as a frame. But her post uses the windows themselves as objects.
In the first picture, the windows transform a building in New York’s Chelsea Building into a kind of illuminated box. In the second, the airconditioning units sticking out of the windows were what caught her eye. In the third, the window is a wee cut-out in an expanse of grey wall, the only shot of life in a very industrial-looking room.
Night, Chelsea District, New York City: September 2017
More Windows, Chelsea District, New York City: September 2017
Minimalist: Window of a Mini-Eichler, Palo Alto, California
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 21, 2017 at 3:50 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Family, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Personal Bookshelf, Places, postaday, Recommended, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: indulgences, Literary Magazines, memories, music, nostalgia, photography, postaday, postaweek, websites, Wordpress
This week, let’s explore the interplay of texture and depth.
— Ben Huberman, The Daily Post
Self’s home is in Redwood City, California. She’s been exploring its nooks and crannies this summer.
She got this nifty display stand about 20 years ago, and every time she needs some validation, she looks at the stand, where most (if not all) of the journals that have published her work over the years are displayed.
On the lowest shelf are two programmes from the New Hampshire Symphony. The opera she collaborated on with Drew Hemenger got its world premiere in New Hampshire, March 2015:
And here’s the interior of a peanut butter & chocolate do-nut from an iconic doughnut shop in Westwood, which she visited in July:
Finally, a keepsake box filled with samples of son’s childhood artwork:
Layers of memory, layers of goodness.
Other examples of LAYERED from around WordPress:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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