March 13, 2019 at 11:39 pm (Books, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: biographies, history, inspiration, reading lists
Leadership During Turbulent Times, Chapter 1 (Abraham), p. 6:
— Nathaniel Grigsby, a childhood friend of Abraham Lincoln
March 13, 2019 at 7:28 pm (Books, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: biographies, history, inspiration
My mind is like a piece of steel — very hard to scratch anything on it, and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.
February 26, 2019 at 7:46 pm (Artists and Writers, Conversations, Movies, Surprises)
Tags: fashion, illness, inspiration, Oscars, Vanity Fair
Went to the Vanity Fair Oscar Party! YES! Look at that gown — beautiful and ethereal. Who was the designer?
This actress is so beautiful and so fierce.
She told Vanity Fair that she realized, finally, that what she really wanted to do was to act. “But I don’t know if it’s too late.”
SELMA, YOU CAN ACT.
Stay tuned.
January 29, 2019 at 5:54 pm (Links, plans, Surprises)
Tags: Cee Neuner, inspiration, teaching
Cee Neuner’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is BLACK AND WHITE.
Self did an earlier post for this challenge, but today she was cleaning closets. And she pulled out these two lovely objects, which are feather dusters. And she thought huh and what if — ?
So she brought the feather dusters to the light and started taking pictures.
Voila! Black and White 2! Even though the feathers are more Black and Grey!
Tuesday, 29 January 2019
Since she is preparing to teach a class at the Mendocino Art Center called One Story, Six Ways, she might ask her students to look at this set of photos for one of the exercises.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
January 27, 2019 at 9:05 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Explorers, Filipino Writers, Links, Places, Recommended, Sundays, Surprises, Writing)
Tags: inspiration, Mendocino, teaching
A deep examination of process.
A workshop that is as much about reflection as it is about writing.
A workshop about doing it over. And over. Until you get it right.
ONE STORY, SIX WAYS: Feb. 8 – 10, 2019
Instructor: Marianne Villanueva
42500 Little Lake Street
Mendocino, CA
January 4, 2019 at 11:48 pm (destinations, Links, Places, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, California, Cee Neuner, Fridays, Garden, inspiration, Ireland, photography, Redwood City
Cee Neuner has very interesting prompts. This week’s is MONOTONES. Love it.
Lake Annagmakerrig: 4:30 a.m., 8 November 2018 (Just realized that it’s too light in the photograph for 4:30 a.m. DUH! The photo is time-stamped for California time, which is eight hours ahead of Ireland. The actual time in Ireland when self took the picture was 12:30 p.m.)
It amuses self to think about how the first color that usually comes to mind when one thinks of Ireland is green.
Clouds, Annaghmakerrig: 7:30 a.m. (California time, which means 3:30 p.m. in Ireland), 7 November 2018
Fatsia, Backyard, Redwood City: 11 a.m., 26 September 2018
January 2, 2019 at 5:45 pm (Books, Memoirs, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: causes, essay, inspiration, politics, The New Yorker, wisdom
Self has been subscribing to The New Yorker for over 30 years.
She saves back issues. Obv.
Here’s an excerpt from a Talk of the Town piece published 28 May 2018:
“The Long Fight,” by Amy Davidson Sorkin
After reading the piece, self adds McCain’s The Restless Wave, the book the Senator co-authored with Mark Salter, to her 2019 reading list. In that book, McCain writes
Stay tuned.
December 31, 2018 at 6:11 pm (Books, destinations, Links, Personal Bookshelf, Places, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: England, fantasy, inspiration, London, Mondays, Oxford, Philip Pullman, pilgrimage
Much thanks to sonofabeach96 for the prompt, which sent self back to her archive of photographs, taken during her most recent trip:
London Alley, 20 November 2018
Rainy Night, London, 20 November 2018
Wolvercote, the Ruins of Godstow Abbey in the distance, 16 November 2018: Philip Pullman’s LA BELLE SAUVAGE led self here. (When’s Book 2, The Secret Commonwealth, coming out? Been waiting a long, long time!)
November 14, 2018 at 4:19 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Filipino Writers, Links, Places, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, Cee Neuner, inspiration, Ireland, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, writing process
Cee Neuner, thank you for coming up with such interesting prompts.
When Self Can’t Sleep: 3 a.m. in her cottage at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig
Late October: Walking back to the cottage after dinner in the Main House, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
The cottages at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig make maximum use of natural light.
Self was able to keep working on Blue Water, Distant Shores, her novel-in-progress about 18th century Philippines (As of now, 322 pages)
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
November 13, 2018 at 9:19 pm (Books, destinations, Lists, Places, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: fantasy, Garden, His Dark Materials, inspiration, novel, Oxford, Philip Pullman
All locations in Oxford (or adjoining):
His Dark Materials locations:
The Book of Dust locations:
It was a spectacularly beautiful day. Self started out from Oxford City Centre and made it all the way to the Oxford Botanic Garden:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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