September 24, 2016 at 2:52 pm (destinations, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, discoveries, museums, Paris, postaday, postaweek, praise, Saturdays, travel, websites, Wordpress
Liking these WordPress bloggers’ takes on this week’s Photo Challenge: QUEST
Check them out!
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September 17, 2016 at 6:32 pm (Family, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Recommended, Relatives, Traveling)
Tags: Bacolod, England, memories, postaday, postaweek, Saturdays, The Philippines, websites, Wordpress
Edge of Family’s Fields: Negros Occidental, the Philippines
Path cleared for a tractor.
And one more:
Hinoba-an, Negros Occidental
Check out a few more WordPress bloggers who posted on EDGE:
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September 14, 2016 at 9:25 pm (Links, Lists, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: destinations, England, London, New York, postaday, postaweek, praise, websites, Wordpress
In which self pays homage to other WordPress blogs whose interpretations of The Daily Post Photo Challenge (EDGE) are inspiring:
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September 10, 2016 at 8:45 pm (Artists and Writers, Links, Places, Recommended, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: artists residency, Edinburgh, Hawthornden, inspirations, memories, Saturdays, Scotland, websites
Sylvain Landry’s blog is a meeting place for photographers. Self loves participating in his photo challenges. The first of his Year 2 photo challenges is: SELFIE.
Self hates posing for pictures, but not when she’s taking a selfie. When she takes a selfie, the inner imp emerges and self’s smiles are always big as big. Thank you, Sylvain Landry, for the start of another great year of sharing!
This selfie is special for another reason: She bought the jacket from an Edinburgh department store, and the dress from a Tesco, the year she did a residency at Hawthornden. She was there June 2012. And that is where she met two British writers who ended up being fast friends: the poets Jenny Lewis and Joan McGavin.
Self wearing her Edinburgh jacket and a dress she bought from TESCO: 2012
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
September 8, 2016 at 4:37 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, Recommended, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Literary Magazines, memories, short story, The Philippines
Dumaguete is on the island of Negros, one of the central islands in the Philippines.
This is a descption of the city from a short story self wrote years ago. The story was published in White Whale Review 1.2:
The town itself was small and not at all like what he’d expected. He noticed there were no signal lights and everyone rode around on motorbikes or tricycles. These contraptions roamed all over the City and made a terrific belching noise. Smoke poured from their exhaust pipes, marring the fresh air that blew in from the ocean.
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September 7, 2016 at 4:17 pm (Books, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: Dublin, Ireland, memories, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, Stanford, Wordpress
— Jen H., The Daily Post
St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin: Spring 2015
Dog-Eared Books, Valencia Street, San Francisco: LitCrawl, October 2015
The Stanford Halo, near Green Library: September 2016
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September 7, 2016 at 5:17 am (Artists and Writers, Books, Food and Drink, Links, Niece, Places, Relatives, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: art, fast food, Florence, nonfiction
Anyone with a little bit of money can buy a Louis Vuitton handbag, of which thousands are manufactured each year. Very few people can buy the new Jeff Koons, even if they do have the tens of millions of dollars required.
— Brazillionaires, p. 29
Self’s question is: Why would anyone want to buy a Jeff Koons? A Koons was in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence when self was there with her niece, Irene, last November. It was placed right next to a Michelangelo and it was ugly. Hope it was only a temporary installation.
(Side note: In Florence, on the road to the Santa Maria del Fiori, you will pass a McDonald’s. Which was always packed. Self just could not understand it. When all around were great, really great local restaurants. It must be the convenience.)
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
September 7, 2016 at 12:56 am (Books, Conversations, Places, Relatives, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: memories, New York, nonfiction
Last year, in New York, self made it a point to visit Carnegie Hall, where Dearest Mum gave a piano concert when she was only 14. She had won a New York Times piano competition.
Because self wanted to be as close to Carnegie Hall as possible, she stayed in a hotel only a block away. She arrived with two suitcases filled with books and kept apologizing to the bell hop. She vividly remembers how, when she was in London, a bus driver who was attempting to help her with her bags said, after hefting one: “I tell ya, it must be nice leaving home knowing you’ve brought all your books with you!”
The New York bellhop said: “Madame, this is nothing. A few days ago, I helped a Brazilian couple, and they had 17 suitcases.”
17 suitcases! Unbelievable!
But now that self is reading Brazillionaires, she believes it.
Because Brazillionaires is all about how Brazil’s richest people (what we in America might refer to as “the 1%) live.
And self now belatedly recalls that one time, when she was visiting a class in Skyline College, she just blurted out, completely unprompted: “I hate rich people.”
And unfortunately, she’ll be reading this book all week.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
September 5, 2016 at 3:24 pm (Artists and Writers, Conversations, Links, Lists, Recommended, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: complaints, Facebook, Mondays
There’s a fascinating discussion going on in Facebook. Lisa Chekerylla asked for recommended laptops/tablets for travel, and self had no hesitation whatsoever in responding:
Self’s MacBook Air. She bought it in 2011, from the Apple Store in downtown Palo Alto.
Products recommended by other writers:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
September 3, 2016 at 5:38 pm (Links, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, art, artists residency, England, Ireland, London, memories, museums, New York, postaday, postaweek, Saturdays, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Wordpress
Dining Table, Park Avenue, New York City, May 2016
Puddle, Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Spring 2016
The Iron Lady Herself, British National Portrait Gallery, April 2016: The bottom half of the painting is actually a mirror, reflecting the legs of the viewers. But they look like they’re the legs of the subjects in the Portrait!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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