October 19, 2017 at 4:28 pm (Artists and Writers, Lists, Memoirs, Personal Bookshelf, Publishers, Recommended, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: dreams, flash fiction, Hotel Amerika, Literary Magazines, memories, nostalgia, poetry, prose poetry
Redwood City, California: Thursday, 19 October 2017
Vol. 8, No. 2 of Hotel Amerika was the trans-genre issue.
The opening piece was by Charlene Fix, “Less Than Zero”:
I know what Robert Downey, Jr. looks like and it’s not like you.
Yet he’s a ringer for you in this film, and we’re arrested,
handcuffed, booked, and sentenced to the couch for the duration.
Self’s piece in the same issue was “Ghosts”:
I dreamt about my sister, dead these many years. It seemed she was in a place of ghosts. In my dream I put my face up to hers and kissed her cheek and said, “I’ll always be your sister.”
Another piece in the same issue: “Alice Ages and Ages,” by Sarah White
ALICE IS OLD
She had the mirror removed years ago but has never stopped studying herself.
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October 16, 2017 at 5:29 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Family, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Places, Recommended, Relatives, Traveling)
Tags: Albuquerque, art, Cee Neuner, discoveries, Edinburgh, England, memories, Mondays, museums, music, websites
How SYW (Share Your World) Works:
Create your post answering the four questions below, then post a link to Cee Neuner’s blog in the comment box.
- If you had to move to a country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?
- What color would you like your bedroom to be?
- What makes you Happy? Make a list of things in your life that bring you joy.
- What inspired you or what did you appreciate this past week?
Here are self’s answers:
If you had to move to a country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?
The Philippines, since I grew up there.
England, because I adore theatre and everything related to. And because it’s an easy hop from there to my other favorite country: Ireland.
What color would you like your bedroom to be?
A deep red. The kind I first saw in Edinburgh, in 2012.
What makes you happy? Make a list of things in your life that bring you joy.
- Discovering new places
- Visiting museums
- Being with son, his wife Jennie, and their friends
- Writing
- Reading a good book
- Looking at flowers
What inspired you or what did you appreciate this past week?
Eating Bone Marrow Tapas at Mas Tapas y Vino on 2nd in downtown Albuquerque.
Haven’t had bone marrow in soooo long. Self loved it growing up in the Philippines.
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October 14, 2017 at 5:53 am (Artists and Writers, Dearest Mum, destinations, Family, Food and Drink, Links, Pianos, Places, postaday, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: art, Bath, England, Fridays, memories, museums, New York, Paris, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, Wordpress
Very interesting challenge from The Daily Post this week!
SCALE
Photography ” . . . is all about perspective, where and how you place other objects in the frame . . . ” — Erica V., The Daily Post
Here are some examples of SCALE: (1) at the Louvre, in front of the Mona Lisa (2) in Bath’s Royal Crescent, the entrance to Royal Crescent # 1 and (3) in New York’s Russian Tea Room, next to Carnegie Hall. Self’s first trip to New York City was with Dearest Mum, who once played at Carnegie Hall. This September, she took Dearest Mum, who’s now past 80, for lunch at the Russian Tea Room. We had the best time.
The Louvre, May 2017
Royal Crescent No. 1 (Royal Crescent Museum), Bath
The Russian Tea Room, 57th St., New York City (Next to Carnegie Hall): Dearest Mum took self here, her first time in New York City, decades ago. The place hasn’t changed a bit.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 12, 2017 at 3:11 pm (Flowers, Links, Plays)
Tags: Cal Shakes, California, Cee Neuner, memories, photography, Shakespeare, websites
For Cee Neuner’s Flower of the Day photo prompt:
A shot of the Orinda Hills, last month, as self was leaving Bruns Amphitheatre after watching Measure for Measure:
Flowers in the photograph are teensy. She thinks those are penstemons.
Pray the California wildfires cease.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 8, 2017 at 8:21 pm (destinations, Places, postaday, Recommended, Sundays, Traveling)
Tags: art, London, memories, museums, New York, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
There’s a theme to the photographs here, self’s second post on The Daily Post’s Photo Challenge of the week, PEDESTRIANS.
- The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City:
- The Atrium, Robert Lehman Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
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October 6, 2017 at 5:34 pm (Family, Food and Drink, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: California, farmers markets, happiness, memories, New York, postaday, postaweek, Sacramento, summer, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is PEDESTRIAN:
- What does PEDESTRIAN mean to you? Perhaps this is a great chance to go out and practice some street photography.
— Krista Stevens, The Daily Post
So, here are three street scenes. They’re not the greatest, but they certainly were street:
New York City: September 2017
Jennie, Son, and Self in the Claremont, CA Farmers Market: July 2017
Downtown Sacramento, CA: July 2017
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October 1, 2017 at 4:04 pm (Books, Personal Bookshelf, Recommended, Sundays, Women Writers)
Tags: Eleanor Hoffmann, memories, nostalgia
While the story-teller’s assistants still beat tom-tom and tambourine to attract listeners, the story-teller himself was looking slyly about to size up the prosperity and generosity of his audience. At last he stood up. The tom-toms rose to final fury, then stopped suddenly.
“One night among nights,” began the storyteller, and the circle became a pool of quiet in the noisy market place. Beggars and judges’ sons leaned forward with equal eagerness.
— Mischief in Fez, Chapter 1 (The Household of Muhammed Ali) by Eleanor Hoffmann
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September 25, 2017 at 6:48 pm (destinations, Flowers, Places, Plays, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: art, Cal Shakes, California, memories, Mondays, museum, New York, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
Bruins Amphitheatre, Orinda
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City: The squares are on the ground level, the woman taking the picture is on the 4th? 5th? Floor.
New York City, View from the Chelsea District
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September 21, 2017 at 3:50 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Family, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Personal Bookshelf, Places, postaday, Recommended, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: indulgences, Literary Magazines, memories, music, nostalgia, photography, postaday, postaweek, websites, Wordpress
This week, let’s explore the interplay of texture and depth.
— Ben Huberman, The Daily Post
Self’s home is in Redwood City, California. She’s been exploring its nooks and crannies this summer.
She got this nifty display stand about 20 years ago, and every time she needs some validation, she looks at the stand, where most (if not all) of the journals that have published her work over the years are displayed.
On the lowest shelf are two programmes from the New Hampshire Symphony. The opera she collaborated on with Drew Hemenger got its world premiere in New Hampshire, March 2015:
And here’s the interior of a peanut butter & chocolate do-nut from an iconic doughnut shop in Westwood, which she visited in July:
Finally, a keepsake box filled with samples of son’s childhood artwork:
Layers of memory, layers of goodness.
Other examples of LAYERED from around WordPress:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 18, 2017 at 1:17 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Filipino Writers, Places, postaday, Sayings, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: 9/11, inspiration, memories, Mondays, New York, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
Share a snapshot that shows a sense of waiting.
— Cheri Lucas Rowlands, The Daily Post
First, self’s Philippine passport. She is a dual citizen of the Philippines and the United States. This passport dates from the time when she first entered the U.S., to begin grad studies at Stanford:
Final picture: Last week, self was in New York for her nephew’s wedding. On September 11, she decided to go to the Whitney on Gansevoort Street, her favorite Manhattan museum. She started at the top floor (the Calders) and worked her way down.
On the top floor, there’s a restaurant with stunning views. She saw the Statue of Liberty:
Sept. 11, 2017: “Bring me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses . . . “
Immigrants. Self was an immigrant once.
Stay tuned.
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