September 11, 2017 at 1:39 pm (Aunts, Dearest Mum, Family, Lists, Niece, Pianos, Places, Relatives, Traveling)
Tags: 9/11, Events, grief, memorials, memories, Mondays, New York, transitions
This city holds a special place in self’s memories:
- Dearest Mum began her piano career here, at Carnegie Hall.
- Self worked here for a year, before entering the Stanford Creative Writing Program.
- Her sister was married here, 1982.
- Her sister gave birth to three children here, one of whom was married here, two days ago.
- Her sister died here, December 19, 1991.
Because self is at the moment staying in Chelsea, here’s a view of this amazing city, on 9/11:
New York City: 9/11/2017
Here are pictures of the children who were, respectively, six, five and six months old when self’s sister passed away:
William and Christopher Blackett, 9 September 2017
Georgina Isabella: 9 September 2017
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 10, 2017 at 3:50 pm (destinations, Family, Food and Drink, Niece, plans, postaday, Relatives, Sundays, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Events, happiness, New York, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
The Daily Post publishes a new Photo Challenge every Wednesday. This coming Wednesday, though, they’re taking a brief break. The next Photo Challenge will be posted next Wednesday, Sept. 20.
In the meantime, the Photo Challenge this week is WAITING.
Self’s nephew William was married yesterday morning, at St. Ignatius of Loyola on Park. Friends and family converged on New York City from Australia, Spain, England, the Philippines (Dearest Mum and all of self’s nephews and nieces, one sister-in-law) and of course other cities in the U.S., including Miami and Houston.
Last night, there was dinner and dancing at the Central Park Boathouse. Self got a Lyft to take her to 72nd and Fifth. Who should she see standing on the corner but a bunch of her Filipino nephews and nieces, all just standing there in very fancy attire. They told self they were waiting for a shuttle. Pictures are blurred because self has very trembl-y fingers.
Niece and nephews came all the way from the Philippines to attend the wedding of their cousin, William Blackett.
Self’s niece, Maia, is in plum; Maia’s mom, Mia, is in electric blue. Everyone looked fantastic!
It was a wonderful evening. Weather was just a bit chilly.
William’s sister, Georgina, was the maid of honor. Here she is, all dolled up, just before the start of the event:
Last night at the Central Park Boathouse
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 29, 2017 at 4:30 pm (Artists and Writers, Dearest Mum, Family, Flowers, Links, Lists, Places, Plays, postaday, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, Cork, Events, Ireland, London, memories, Paris, postaday, postaweek, Readings, Sacramento, Saturdays, Shakespeare, summer, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Washington DC, Wordpress
- Share a photo of something that brings you satisfaction. It can be monumental, minor, or something in between.
— Jen H., The Daily Post
For this post, self decided to kill two birds with one stone. She’ll look back at her fondest memories of 2017 (thus far) — the moments that gave her the most satisfaction.
From Shakespeare’s Globe, her last night in London, June 2017
The Eiffel Tower: May 2017
Quarterly West reading at Sixth Engine, Washington DC, February 2017
Bus Stop (near the Cathedral of Notre Dame)
Waiting for the beginning of Kenneth Macmillan’s beautiful, stunning ballet, “Mayerling”: Saturday, May 13
The Main House, Under a Crescent Moon
The Forest Seen From the Lake: Early March
Going to the Globe and seeing Tristan and Yseult; sorting through old photographs of Dearest Mum; seeing the Eiffel Tower up close; reading her story First Causes at Sixth Engine in Washington, DC; watching Mayerling at the Royal Albert Hall; visiting Cork; Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 14, 2017 at 8:52 pm (Recommended, television)
Tags: adaptations, Events, fantasy, Game of Thrones, Gendry
Gendry to the Red Woman aka Melisandre: “I’m just a bastard.”
Melisandre: “Not just any bastard. Your father was Robert of the House Baratheon.”
Damn right!
Two more days!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 3, 2017 at 4:23 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Explorers, Links, Places, Recommended)
Tags: California, deadlines, Events, festivals, Mondays, San Francisco
AIA San Francisco and the Center for Architecture + Design present the 14th Annual Architecture and the City Festival, featuring community workshops, design challenges, educational lectures, tours, films, special events, and an exhibition. The month-long celebration provides opportunities for participants to engage with the local architecture community and experience design in a myriad of ways throughout the city.
Entering the City on 101 North
Programs must address some of our most pressing urban issues, demonstrate innovation in working toward a more sustainable future, and explore how progressive design and creative problem solving improve our quality of life in the Bay Area.
FESTIVAL THEME: SECRET CITY
Questions? Contact Jaime Wong, Program Manager, at jwong@aiasf.org or 415.874.2632.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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June 4, 2017 at 7:04 pm (Artists and Writers, Filipino Writers, Links, Publishers, Sundays, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: dystopia, Events, fantasy, Literary Magazines, memories, Readings, restaurants, short story, Washington DC
Read it at Sixth Engine in Washington DC, at a group reading organized by Quarterly West in conjunction with AWP February 2017. The editors took a chance with this one, it’s all fractured syntax and stars a professor named Fire Lizard. Self is writing a sequel right now.
What a blast:
Quarterly West reading at Sixth Engine, Washington DC, February 2017
Discussion of the First Corollary: What is average is perfect. Thoughts dark as dark. Big arguing with her. But but but. Her winking at me behind his back. Me thinking: sunlight and glass.
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March 13, 2017 at 8:45 am (Artists and Writers, Conversations, Food and Drink, Places, Surprises, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: Events, Literary Magazines, memories, Mondays, Readings, restaurants, Washington DC
Self’s dystopian “First Causes” appears in the latest issue of Quarterly West.
Self very much enjoyed the reading for the launch of the issue because: 1) it was in Washington DC, and she got to see some old friends again; 2) she re-connected with a few people she hasn’t seen in years. Such as Letitia. Who was a student at Old Dominion University in Virginia when self read there for a literary festival (2007?) Now, Letitia is an Editor/Linguist/Poet (see business card below).
Self is tempted to ask Letitia if she’d like to help edit a collection of her speculative fiction she is getting ready to send out:
The reading was co-hosted by two other literary magazines: 32 Poems and Smartish Pace.
And oh boy it was packed. To the point where the audience was all standing like a can of sardines.
A man threw copies of his poetry collection at the audience. “That is so cool!” a young man remarked. Since self was reading next, she was hard-pressed to think of something attention-getting.
She moved front, started babbling about how fan fiction got her there. And — received enthusiastic applause from somewhere on the right!
Forever grateful to the listeners, and of course to Quarterly West. Here’s a shot she took that night of the (very crowded) venue:
The bar-restaurant Sixth Engine, downtown Washington DC, night of 8 February 2017
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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February 22, 2017 at 7:53 pm (Artists and Writers, Food and Drink, Movies, Places, postaday, Recommended, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: concerts, Events, film noir, museums, music, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, Washington DC, Wordpress
- . . . share a photo of things that complement each other.
— Ben Huberman, The Daily Post
Self has wanted to blog this picture for the longest time: at Dulles International, the day she left Washington DC, there was a one-man concert in the departures terminal. OMG, what a send-off this man’s music was! The sign next to the musician announced that the free concert was in honor of Black History Month. WOW. Self has no words. Thrilling.
Merlon Devine, playing at Dulles International, in honor of Black History Month: February 2017
And here’s a sign self saw at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore:
Definitely, Food is Love.
Finally, a poster advertising the annual Noir Film Festival at the Castro Theatre. San Francisco and Noir go together like white on rice:
The 15th Annual Film Noir Festival (Noir City), held at the Castro Theatre
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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February 11, 2017 at 7:27 pm (Artists and Writers, Links, Lists, Movies, Surprises, Women Writers)
Tags: adaptations, Events, Jane Austen, lists, museums, Saturdays
- It is the Year of the Rooster. Kung Hei Fat Choy!
- There will be a Trainspotting 2! Also a Baywatch movie! Also a Barbie movie! Also another Star Wars movie!
- EU will abolish roaming charges for cell phones!
- The world will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen, today’s most bestselling author!
- Museum of the Bible becomes DC’s newest museum!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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February 9, 2017 at 8:39 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Women Writers)
Tags: Asian American Writers, Events, novel, San Francisco, University of Hawaii
THE CHARM BUYERS, by Lillian Howan, is a novel that describes extraordinary beauty and turbulent change: Tahiti during the last years of French nuclear testing in the Pacific in the 1990s. Tahiti in the 1990s is a place where a supernatural, shamanistic reality exists together with the traditions of the Hakka Chinese, set against the background of the French colonial past and the Ma’ohi struggle for independence. It presents a world in transition and its people — black pearl cultivators, artists, taro farmers, politicians, smugglers, and shamans.
The Charm Buyers is a thought-provoking insight into a time of cultural change. It captures an essence of existing between reality and surreality, dreaming and wakefulness, the past and the future. (Foreword Reviews)
Book Launch!
Wednesday, 15 February 2017
5 p.m.
Maier Room, Fromm Hall
University of San Francisco
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
Sponsored by the Master of Arts in Asia Pacific Studies, Asian Pacific American Studies, and the Center for Asia Pacific Studies.
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