November 14, 2019 at 11:51 am (Books, Philippine History, Places, Recommended)
Tags: history, The Philippines
from Chapter 7: Concerning a description of the looms (los telares) of these natives and an account of other arts like the working of precious metals which here are of gold alone, etc.
November 11, 2019 at 7:57 am (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Personal Bookshelf, Places, Recommended)
Tags: Golden Gate Park, Mondays, novel, reading lists, San Francisco, San Francisco Chronicle
p. 378: SPOILER-FREE
Three months later, a machine shed in a lumber yard up near the Olympic Peninsula explodes. Mimi reads about it in the Chronicle. She’s sitting on the grass by the Conservatory of Flowers, in the corner of Golden Gate Park, a ten-minute walk from the hilltop, University of San Francisco, where she’s finishing her master’s degree in rehabilitation and mental health counseling.
Newspaper Sidebar: Timeline of Ecological Terror, 1980 – 1999
Ha! Richard Powers gets the flavor of the San Francisco Bay Area down in spades. Wonder where he lives?
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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.
November 6, 2019 at 5:00 pm (Filipino Writers, Places, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Mendocino, short story, speculative fiction, supernatural, work-in-progress, writing process
TO DO
Weekend in Mendocino: Clouds lower, spit rain. The meadows on the headlands are green like Ireland’s. No flowers yet, it’s still early in the year.
Out there, where the surf meets the cliffs, lives a Kraken.
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.
November 2, 2019 at 4:52 pm (Books, Conversations, Personal Bookshelf, Places, Surprises, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: Cornwall, discoveries, environment, Fowey, reading lists, Saturday
Her father explains how the trick is done. “Think about it! They’ve figured out how to live trapped in place, with no other protection, whipped by winds at thirty below zero.”
These magnificent Monterey pines were planted by the original owner of Fowey Hall, in Cornwall. Self encountered them for the first time in May 2019.
She had always thought Monterey pines were found in only two places in the world: California, and Kilkenny Park in Northern Ireland (She contributed a piece about Northern Ireland’s Monterey Pine for a book on Trees of Kilkenny, edited by poet Csilla Toldy and published last year)
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.
October 26, 2019 at 7:40 pm (Artists and Writers, Explorers, Filipino Writers, Places, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Asian American Writers, fiction, novel, Saturday, South-East Asia, The Philippines
from self’s novel:
This, dear blog readers, is self’s mythical island in the central Philippines. The place where her ambitious MC (a priest!) lives out his life, in the 18th century.
Stay tuned.
October 24, 2019 at 7:47 am (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Explorers, Filipino Writers, Places, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: historical fiction, historical novel, Manila, novel, The Philippines
Going to be sending this out for query in the next few days.
p. 24:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
October 22, 2019 at 11:05 am (Artists and Writers, Books, Explorers, Philippine History, Places, Recommended)
Tags: history, The Philippines
— History of the Bisayan People in the Philippine Islands, 1668
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