June 9, 2017 at 2:33 pm (Artists and Writers, Conversations, Filipino Writers, Food and Drink, Links, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, breakfast, California, coffee, desserts, Fridays, Ireland, memories, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, websites, writing process
Self originally posted a different photo for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge, but that was because she hadn’t read the prompt, only looked at the title, boo.
The prompt is supposed to be about finding Photo Ops In Your Own House.
Since self hasn’t been in her own house in years, here are the closest things to it:
- Her writing table at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig, with her cup of coffee next to her MacBook Air. She always starts the day with a pot of coffee.
- A friend’s house in San Gabriel, CA
Crushing the Writing: Thursday, 2 July
Having breakfast outside with Connie Ignacio Genato, friends since grade school in Manila
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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June 4, 2017 at 6:09 am (destinations, Lists, Places, postaday, Sundays)
Tags: art, California, Capitola, Golden Gate Park, memories, museum, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, Wordpress
The Beach at Capitola
101 North
Missing home and friends and familiar places:
- The beach at Capitola
- Highway 101 on the northbound approach to San Francisco
- The sculpture garden in the de Young Museum
- More Capitola beaches
Stay tuned.
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May 10, 2017 at 8:01 pm (Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: California, Dublin, Ireland, memories, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, San Francisco, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is REFLECTING.
As Nanci Thanki puts it, find “reflections and changes in perspective . . . from water and glass to metallic surfaces . . . “
Here’s how self interpreted that theme today:
- Dublin’s St. Stephen’s Green is a place where self does deep reflecting. She was there Monday evening:
St. Stephen’s Green, 8 May 2017
- The light reflecting off self’s lens: she loves this shot. Even though it’s not a “good” shot, it really reflects a sense of “the moment”:
More St. Stephen’s Green!
- Moody night shot of San Francisco. There’s a pedestrian reflected in the glass of the cab window (Self’s best night shots are taken from the back of a cab, lol). The cab was just passing In Situ, the restaurant on MOMA’s ground floor:
San Francisco: 3rd Street by Night
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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April 28, 2017 at 3:53 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Holidays, Places, postaday, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Albion, Annaghmakerrig, art, California, happiness, inspiration, Ireland, memories, writing process
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is
WANDERLUST
- Have you traveled anywhere exciting lately? This week, let’s see where you’ve been. — David W., The Daily Post
Self is still in Ireland! Which is a long way from her home in northern California. Here’s a wee artwork that artist Bernadette Burns (who lives on Sherkin Island, West Cork — self met her at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre) left behind in her studio. Self taped to it to her MacBook Air as an emblem of what she is: a wanderer.
On Self’s MacBook Air: A Memento From Another Artist
Here’s a shot of Annaghmakerrig Lake in early March. The wind was blowing hard that day. Self was fascinated by the ripples on the lake’s surface and by the outline of trees on the far shore. She would never have known this lake if she weren’t seized by such wanderlust:
Annagmakerrig Lake: Cold Day in Early March
And here’s a picture of the view from Albion River Inn, California, where she spent New Year’s. And began writing a new story, called The Rorqual, which is about a sea invasion of Earth (by creatures called Longnecks). It was the first New Year’s she spent completely by herself, and she made the most of it.
Albion, California: January 2017
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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April 26, 2017 at 5:24 pm (destinations, Places, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, California, England, Ireland, London, memories, Mendocino, photography, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Morning Fog, Mendocino: January 2017
Sunday Evening, Trafalgar Square, London: March 2017
Annaghmakerrig Lake, Early Morning: March 2017
The Main House, Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig: Under a Crescent Moon: March 2017
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April 5, 2017 at 6:18 pm (anthologies, Artists and Writers, Books, Calls, Conversations, Dearest Mum, Family, Filipino Writers, Lists, Memoirs, Places, Publishers, short story collections, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Asian American Writers, book lists, California, Mayor of the Roses, memories, Miami University Press, short story
There were fourteen years before self’s first and second book.
The first was published by Calyx Press in Corvallis, OR.
The second was published by Miami University Press.
The third, The Lost Language, is only available in the Philippines.
The fourth is an e-book published by Vagabondage in Florida.
There’s also an anthology she co-edited for Calyx Press: Going Home to a Landscape.
Recently, she got an email from writer and teacher Susie Hara, who said she had liked the story “Rufino” in Mayor of the Roses.
It was the last story to be included in the collection. She threw it in at the last minute.
Rufino was a real person.
Here’s an excerpt from the story:
Towards the end, he couldn’t wear any clothes. They had to cover him in banana leaves.
It was in July he died — I couldn’t believe it. A voice on the phone told me.
“Rufino died na.” It was my mother speaking. Naturally, she had to be the one to break the news.
I was staying in a friend’s house in the Santa Cruz Mountains. In the mornings, fog blanketed the hills. We heard the mournful mooing of invisible cows. One or another of us would look east, toward where we heard Neil Young had his ranch, wondering whether we’d catch a glimpse of his pink cadillac that day.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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March 22, 2017 at 9:06 am (destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: California, England, Golden Gate Park, London, memories, museums, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, San Francisco, Wordpress
If you’re physically on top of a thing or place — a mountain, a skyscraper — what type of scene do you want to share in your frame?
— Cheri Lucas Rowlands, The Daily Post
For this week’s photo challenge, ATOP, self pulled from her Archive:
Fall 2016: Main Lobby of the de Young Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park: View from the 2nd Floor
Summer 2016: The Tate Modern is housed in what used to be the Battersea Power Station. In keeping with its industrial spirit, everything in the Tate Modern has that utilitarian feel. Even the restaurant, on the 6th floor. It’s called The Kitchen. The Harry Potter Bridge (Formal Name: the Millenium Bridge) is to the right.
Spring 2015: The Portrait Café, British National Portrait Gallery
Note to dear blog readers: The Portrait Cafe hosts an afternoon tea, which is booked weeks in advance. The day self showed up, early March, she could not get a seat. So if you would like to see this fabulous view while having tea, book in advance.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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February 20, 2017 at 6:20 pm (Books, Family, Links, postaday, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: advice, California, causes, inspiration, Mondays, politics, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
An unexpected victory? A snapshot of an unlikely moment? This week, show us something that defies the odds.
— Michelle W., The Daily Post
How about books to help you achieve your dreams?
Books to Straighten Your Thinking in 2017
Daly City Vice Mayor Juslyn Manalo: Filipinos make up a sizable portion of the Daly City population. They struggle against many odds.
At the Most Recent Daly City Council Meeting, Feb. 13, these signs were held by members of the audience.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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February 11, 2017 at 4:54 pm (Food and Drink, Links, Places, postaday, Weather)
Tags: California, Mendocino, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, San Francisco, Saturday, Wordpress
Whether you’re taking a selfie silhouette on the ground, capturing the lines and patterns on the walls while walking your city’s streets, or recording the subtle ways the light hits your subject’s face as she sits next to a window, these different types of shadows you see can add a complex, unexpected layer to your shot.
— Cheri Lucas Rowlands, The Daily Post
In Situ, SF Museum of Modern Art, 3rd St.
Umbrella Passing In Situ
Mendocino: January 2017
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February 1, 2017 at 6:46 am (Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: California, fantasy, writing process
Took a nap on the train. Jolted awake somewhere past San Bruno (saw the sign for Artichoke Joe’s Casino). Grabbed pen and journal. Wrote:
“They came out of the mist. We heard nothing, not even the sound of horses neighing. Battle was joined immediately. We barely had time to raise our swords. I saw nothing — only what was directly in front of me. The face of my enemy, contorted by a mix of disgust and rage.”
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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