May 14, 2018 at 12:10 am (Books, Family, Places, postaday, Sundays)
Tags: memories, nostalgia, postaday, postaweek, Redwood City, Wordpress
If one were to think of nostalgia as a place, then that place would definitely be son’s room. She never could bring herself to change the layout, even though he’s long gone: grown, married, and settled in southern California. If you want to know what a museum of childhood looks like, this is the place!
Sunday, 13 May 2018: ALL THE THINGS
5 p.m.
Now, most of the books and stuff scattered on the desks and cabinets are self’s.
February 1, 2018 at 12:53 am (Family, Food and Drink, Places, postaday, Recommended, Relatives, Traveling)
Tags: Filipino food, Manila, memories, nostalgia, postaday, postaweek, The Philippines, Wordpress
First cousin on mother’s side: Maitoni Cu-Unjieng
Home-Cooked Food, with Lots of Fried Garlic
Self is named after this iconic Filipino soup from the central Philippine islands: Batchoy
January 9, 2018 at 11:49 pm (Food and Drink, Links, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: Bacolod, Cee Neuner, Filipino food, indulgences, Manila, nostalgia, The Philippines
Another great Fun Foto Challenge from Cee Neuner: Needs to have the letters O and U in the word.
Self’s word is SOUP. Specifically, a delicious Philippine soup that originates in the central Philippine islands of the Visayas:
BATCHOY: Super Special Bowl of Heaven
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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
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.
August 2, 2017 at 5:29 pm (Artists and Writers, Family, Food and Drink, Links, postaday, Surprises)
Tags: art, California, discoveries, exhibits, memories, museum, nostalgia, restaurants, San Francisco
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge (posted every Wednesday) is TEXTURE.
Photos have “a tactile element, too,” Ben Huberman says. As an example, he provides his shot of “tangles of seaweed . . . across the wet sand at low tide.”
Here are three of self’s own examples of texture:
Maker identified only as “French, Madame Georgette”
Le Pain Quotidien, Claremont, CA: July 2017
Plastic Frog! Found in Son’s Room in Redwood City, CA: This used to be one of his favorite toys.
November 19, 2016 at 3:24 pm (Links, postaday, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: California, discoveries, Fort Bragg, humor, nostalgia, postaday, postaweek, Saturday, Wordpress
This week, make some magic. — Jen H., The Daily Post
For two weeks in March, self stayed at an apartment in Fort Bragg, a place with wonderful deep orange walls, shelves of books, and a collection of animé figurines.
The collector was a lawyer. Next door was a carpentry shop. The books on the shelves were mostly about carpentry and wood finishes.
Here’s the apartment. The animé figurines were discovered at garage sales.
Staying in the apartment was MAGIC.
The Godzilla piece was her favorite. Every day she’d wake up and perform the same morning ritual: swinging the javelin. For good luck.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
October 7, 2016 at 4:19 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Family, Places, postaday, Publishers, Traveling, Venice, Women Writers)
Tags: Calyx Press, Fridays, Italy, Margarita Donnelly, memories, nostalgia, postaday, postaweek, Venice, Wordpress
More from the watershed trip self took with Margarita Donnelly (founder and managing editor of Calyx Press) in April/May 2013, less than two years before she succumbed to cancer. We rented a small two-bedroom apartment in Ca’ San Toma, Venice. Margarita’s adventurous spirit far exceeded self’s.
The Bridge of Sighs, April 2013: View From the Doge’s Palace
San Marco Square on a Rainy April Day
Self on the Rialto Bridge, April 2013: Margarita must have taken the picture. Even though self’s face isn’t visible, she really likes this picture for the mysterious red umbrella.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
October 3, 2016 at 1:32 am (Family, Food and Drink, Links, postaday, Relatives, Sundays)
Tags: China, memories, nostalgia, pets, postaday, postaweek, websites, Wordpress
Of course, nostalgia is something that affects everyone differently. We’d love to know what kinds of experiences you’ve had that stir these emotions for the past in you.
— Jeff Golenski, The Daily Post
Here are some WordPress blogs whose takes on this week’s photo challenge, NOSTALGIA, intrigued self:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
September 30, 2016 at 11:17 pm (Dearest Mum, Family, Places, postaday, Relatives)
Tags: Bacolod, Fridays, memories, nostalgia, postaday, postaweek, The Philippines, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is NOSTALGIA:
The Philippines, specifically Bacolod City, where her father grew up, is the locus of all of self’s nostalgia. And of course, Dearest Mum, who met self’s Dear Departed Dad when she was a young pianist in New York City, and Dear Departed Dad was in Georgetown Law School.
The Daku Balay, Burgos Street, Negros Occidental: The Philippines. Self’s grandfather built this house, at the time the tallest structure in Bacolod City. Self’s father was born in this house.
Dearest Mum, in Her Early 30s
Bacolod City, Negros Occidental: June 2012
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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