August 12, 2017 at 2:13 am (Food and Drink, Links, Places, postaday, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: California, desserts, discoveries, indulgences, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is ELEMENTAL. Erica V. on The Daily Post describes her response to experiencing the American Southwest for the first time: “I was both confused and in awe of this extreme landscape.”
Last month, self was in Pasadena. Her first visit south in three years. She Airbnb’ed in the Pasadena hills. The house was at the very top of a winding driveway. Behind it was nothing but steep, scrubby hillside.
Just inside the front door was a rock, a very heavy rock. Self should have asked her host about it, but she never did:
There was a chameleon that kept trying to get into self’s unit. It was a beautiful thing. Every time self left the apartment, the chameleon would be clinging to the screen door. One day, self decided to photograph it:
Finally, a slice of green matcha tiramisu from Urth Caffé, in downtown Pasadena, a block from legendary bookstore Vroman’s. It looks for all the world like moss!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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June 24, 2017 at 1:25 am (Artists and Writers, Food and Drink)
Tags: desserts, Fridays, indulgences, poetry, summer, The New Yorker
Here’s an excerpt from a poem she encountered today in The New Yorker, one in a huge pile that gathered dust while she was on her latest trip:
we turned to Chinese poetry and Kenneth Rexroth’s
“Hundred Poems” and ended up
talking about the Bollingen and Pound’s
stupid admiration of Mussolini
and how our main poets were on the right
politically — most of them — unlike the European
and South American, and we climbed some steps
into a restaurant I knew to buy gelato
and since we were poets we went by the names,
instead of the tastes and colors — and I stopped talking
and froze beside a small tree since I was
older than Pound was when he went silent
and kissed Ginsberg, a cousin to the Rothschilds,
who had the key to the ghetto in his pocket,
one box over and two rows up, he told me.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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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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January 9, 2017 at 10:56 pm (Books, Food and Drink, Links, Personal Bookshelf, Places, postaday)
Tags: desserts, indulgences, Mondays, postaday, postaweek, reading lists, San Francisco, Wordpress
Self’s second post on this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge: NAMES
Dragon Papa: Grant St., San Francisco
What Self Read, Summer 2016
Iconic Chinatown: San Francisco, Fall 2016
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January 6, 2017 at 7:15 pm (Books, destinations, Food and Drink, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: Cork, desserts, discoveries, Fridays, indulgences, Ireland, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, Wordpress
- Humans love naming things — look around you, and I bet you’ll see dozens of names. This week, take a photo of one!
— Michelle W., The Daily Post
Well, this is an interesting prompt.
Last Thanksgiving, self was in Capitola. There’s a small ice cream parlor selling local ice cream, Marianne’s, which just so happens to be self’s name:
Ice Cream, Locally Made, in Capitola
The lines in front of this bubble tea place in Stockton are ridiculous:
There are two Boba Guys in the City. Self took the picture from the Stockton site.
And here’s the name of a beautiful bookstore in Cork:
One Other Reason to Love the City of Cork in Ireland
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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December 20, 2016 at 4:39 pm (destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, desserts, England, exhibits, indulgences, London, memories, museum, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, Wordpress
This week, share a photo that says ANTICIPATION. — Michelle W., The Daily Post
Art excites self, it always has. Here, people milling about in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, level 2:
When you are in Hometown Creamery on Irving Street: Mango sorbet and fig tart excite.
Hometown Creamery, Irving St., San Francisco: November 2016
And nothing speaks of anticipation more than crossing London’s Millenium Bridge (aka the Harry Potter Bridge) towards St. Paul’s.
London’s Millenium Bridge: No better approach to Saint Paul’s
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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November 16, 2016 at 5:42 am (Food and Drink, Places, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: desserts, Fort Bragg, indulgences, memories, postaday, postaweek, praise, restaurants, Wordpress
The first three months of this year, self spent in Mendocino and Fort Bragg.
Below, a window display in the Fort Bragg bakery A Sweet Affair, in the Depot Building. Their cakes and pastries are exquisite, real works of art. Plus, not to mention, yummmy!
Self wishes she were there. Right now.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 16, 2016 at 9:50 pm (destinations, Food and Drink, Hong Kong, postaday, Recommended, Sundays)
Tags: desserts, discoveries, indulgences, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, Sundays, Wordpress
. . . show us where your heart is.
— Jen H., The Daily Post
Dragon Papa!
Order your own hot (delicious) candy fillings.
752 Grant Street, Chinatown, San Francisco
Lillian’s son Tien is filling out college applications. To help him through the stress, self took him to Dragon Papa.
They make the candy, hot and fresh, just for you!
Only place in the San Francisco Bay Area where you can get your candy fresh! The original Dragon Papa is in Hong Kong.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 29, 2016 at 5:45 pm (Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Surprises)
Tags: advice, complaints, desserts, disappointments, duds, Filipino food, humor, indulgences
See the words on the lid of this bottle of macapuno (coconut fruit preserves)?
Self has been trying to get at the contents for two days. Granted, anyone who spends two days trying to open a bottle must be bonkers. But self really, really loves macapuno. And she hasn’t had any in about 10 years.
In Redwood City, she used to have this nifty thingamajig by Zyliss that wrenches open bottle caps in 10 seconds. But here, she hasn’t seen any store that sells the thing. So, she has to resort to:
- running bottle neck under warm water
- pounding on top lid with knife, block of wood, and hammer
- inserting knife tip under the lid to break seal
- wrapping lid with rubber bands and twisting and twisting and twisting
The Filipino manufacturer should be proud! They have perfected the super-tight seal! Bottle lid’s tighter than a seal on an oil rig! Paging BP Oil! No, even better, paging NASA!
In the meantime, those words EASY OPEN CAP on the lid are simply taunting her. Has the manufacturer never heard of “truth in advertising”? This dilemma has also given rise to snarky thoughts such as: You want the macapuno? You can’t handle the macapuno!
This problem would not occur in the Philippines where self recalls never having to touch food of any kind — because of help! LOL — unless it is delivered on a tray.
Jar of Macapuno, Absolutely Impenetrable. “Easy Open Cap.” Bought two days ago. Enough is enough. Tossing today. Good-bye, $3.99
When all hope is lost, self shares her dilemma on Facebook. Which then leads to a Filipina sending her a link to this instructional video, which contains the words: “Even a two-year-old should have no problem opening a bottle lid using this method.”
LOL LOL LOL
Stay tuned.
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June 24, 2016 at 1:57 pm (Books, Food and Drink, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: desserts, Dublin, Fort Bragg, Fridays, indulgences, Ireland, Los Angeles, postaday, postaweek, summer, Wordpress
Bed & Breakfast, Inchicore, Dublin, May 2016
The Last Bookstore, S. Spring St., Downtown Los Angeles, March 2016
Hand Made Ice Cream in Downtown Fort Bragg, California, March 2016
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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