— Ben Huberman, The Daily Post
Here are three things that made self smile this week:
Her backyard iris: They started blooming about two weeks ago.
This little lady in her side yard:
A new welcome mat! YAY! Spring is sprung!
Here are other WordPress reasons to SMILE:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
8:36 a.m., Monday, 2 April 2018
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(Self hopes this story, which she started writing last year at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig, can go into her newest collection)
This has always been, from the very first draft, the opening paragraph:
The report came from somewhere on the Bering Sea. The pair had left Yellowknife the previous morning. The woman, it appeared, was headed for Baranof, the man for Kuiu. Both were on foot.
The story was born New Year’s Day 2017, in Albion, California.
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Here’s sunset at the end of Little Lake Street, Mendocino:
Every day she gets to watch the drama unfold and begin anew.
Other Rise/Sets of note:
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Saturday, 24 March 2018
During the March For Our Lives
The Blue Wave is coming.
Vote this November.
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Cares do not exist in a garden.
Home for the weekend.
Redwood City March For Our Lives will be a big one. Tomorrow, 1 p.m.
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Self added Utopia to her reading list, just today.
She figures, any book that manages to remain in continuous print for 500 years is surely worth reading.
She took this picture in another favorite place: the Philosophy section of Gallery Bookshop in Mendocino. She’s sure Thomas More would have been tickled pink to know that a young writer named China Miéville, in the 21st century, would be introducing his book by writing about how much he influenced her.
Her reading list for spring and summer goes something like this:
Yes, she is forsaking the contemporary, at least for now. Apologies about the heavy concentration on male writers. She’s on a quest to find books about islands, and she’s only just started her hunt. Women writers will appear, of course they will.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is FAVORITE PLACE.
Cheri Lucas Rowlands: “This week, share an image of your happy place, a secret spot you love, or a faraway location you return to again and again.”
Regular readers of this blog already know what that place is!
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Self’s favorite place is her imagination.
It’s a place where anything can happen: where porcupines turn into lizards, where a teenager carries a woman on his back from San Francisco to Los Angeles because the Apocalypse has happened and people need to stick together, where a taciturn sea captain is the only person who can save humanity from an invasion of creatures called Longnecks who suddenly appear in the Bering Sea.
Self’s stories may not sound happy, but she is most happy when she is writing.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Last Saturday, 17 March, International Woman’s Day, Linda Nietes invited six Filipina authors to Philippine Expressions Bookshop in San Pedro to read from their work. The authors were: poets Angela Narciso Torres and Irene Suico Soriano, and prose writers Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, Prosy Abarquez-Delacruz, Tessie Jayme, and self. The reading was held in the beautiful lobby of a 1920s-era building on 479 W. Sixth Street:
Here’s son with Linda before the reading:
Beautiful Event. Self was honored to be a part of it.
Here’s Linda, in her own words, about why she does what she does:
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Kanlaon 