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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May 14, 2017 at 3:01 pm (Food and Drink, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: art, dance, discoveries, England, London, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, Saturday, Wordpress
The Daily Post Photo Challenge this week is REFLECTING.
Can self just say she arrived sick and barely able to keep upright. But damn — the Royal Opera House!
Seeing it for the first time was — awesome.
Plus, the adjoining bar/restaurant: All that glass! All that light!
Perfect for this week’s Photo Challenge!
Before the start of the ballet, self dashed to the bar to order some hot tea. She wound up sharing a table with an American woman, a ballet aficionado who has season tickets to the New York City Ballet and watches “thirty ballets a year. At least.” Self confided that she wasn’t feeling well and might leave during one of the intermissions.
And the womans said: The pas de deaux in Act III are spectacular. Don’t leave.
The Bar at the Royal Opera House, 8 p.m. Saturday, May 13
And then, the interior of the Royal Opera House itself:
Waiting for the beginning of Kenneth Macmillan’s beautiful, stunning ballet, “Mayerling”: Saturday, May 13
More of the Royal Opera House Bar. At intermission, self went up an escalator to the “Bridge” over the bar, from which she got a jaw-dropping view of Covent Garden, at 8 p.m.:
Center Top, the “Bridge”: A side escalator takes you to it, and from there you can see all of Covent Garden. SPECTACULAR. Especially at sunset.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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May 10, 2017 at 8:01 pm (Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: California, Dublin, Ireland, memories, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, San Francisco, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is REFLECTING.
As Nanci Thanki puts it, find “reflections and changes in perspective . . . from water and glass to metallic surfaces . . . “
Here’s how self interpreted that theme today:
- Dublin’s St. Stephen’s Green is a place where self does deep reflecting. She was there Monday evening:
St. Stephen’s Green, 8 May 2017
- The light reflecting off self’s lens: she loves this shot. Even though it’s not a “good” shot, it really reflects a sense of “the moment”:
More St. Stephen’s Green!
- Moody night shot of San Francisco. There’s a pedestrian reflected in the glass of the cab window (Self’s best night shots are taken from the back of a cab, lol). The cab was just passing In Situ, the restaurant on MOMA’s ground floor:
San Francisco: 3rd Street by Night
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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March 22, 2017 at 9:06 am (destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: California, England, Golden Gate Park, London, memories, museums, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, San Francisco, Wordpress
If you’re physically on top of a thing or place — a mountain, a skyscraper — what type of scene do you want to share in your frame?
— Cheri Lucas Rowlands, The Daily Post
For this week’s photo challenge, ATOP, self pulled from her Archive:
Fall 2016: Main Lobby of the de Young Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park: View from the 2nd Floor
Summer 2016: The Tate Modern is housed in what used to be the Battersea Power Station. In keeping with its industrial spirit, everything in the Tate Modern has that utilitarian feel. Even the restaurant, on the 6th floor. It’s called The Kitchen. The Harry Potter Bridge (Formal Name: the Millenium Bridge) is to the right.
Spring 2015: The Portrait Café, British National Portrait Gallery
Note to dear blog readers: The Portrait Cafe hosts an afternoon tea, which is booked weeks in advance. The day self showed up, early March, she could not get a seat. So if you would like to see this fabulous view while having tea, book in advance.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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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 11, 2017 at 4:54 pm (Food and Drink, Links, Places, postaday, Weather)
Tags: California, Mendocino, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, San Francisco, Saturday, Wordpress
Whether you’re taking a selfie silhouette on the ground, capturing the lines and patterns on the walls while walking your city’s streets, or recording the subtle ways the light hits your subject’s face as she sits next to a window, these different types of shadows you see can add a complex, unexpected layer to your shot.
— Cheri Lucas Rowlands, The Daily Post
In Situ, SF Museum of Modern Art, 3rd St.
Umbrella Passing In Situ
Mendocino: January 2017
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January 11, 2017 at 2:16 am (Food and Drink, Places, postaday, Weather)
Tags: coffee, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, San Francisco, Wordpress
All shots: 3rd Street, South of Market, San Francisco
Iconic Hearst Building, Market and 3rd
CPK: Self looked it up, stands for California Pizza Kitchen (She liked it better before she knew what the initials stood for)
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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November 16, 2016 at 5:42 am (Food and Drink, Places, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: desserts, Fort Bragg, indulgences, memories, postaday, postaweek, praise, restaurants, Wordpress
The first three months of this year, self spent in Mendocino and Fort Bragg.
Below, a window display in the Fort Bragg bakery A Sweet Affair, in the Depot Building. Their cakes and pastries are exquisite, real works of art. Plus, not to mention, yummmy!
Self wishes she were there. Right now.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 21, 2016 at 9:59 pm (Food and Drink, Places, postaday, Weather)
Tags: Fridays, museums, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, San Francisco, Wordpress
- Has something bright or reflective caught your eye in the moment? Share a photo of something you were able to explore a bit!
— Nancy Thanki, The Daily Post
Behind San Francisco’s Ferry Building, A Few Days Ago
Bush Street, San Francisco, After Light Rain
In Situ, Ground Floor, San Francisco MOMA
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay
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August 9, 2016 at 3:41 am (destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: breakfasts, Cork, indulgences, Ireland, memories, Mondays, photography, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, travel, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is MORNING:
- For this week’s photo challenge, publish a new post with an image that means morning to you.
Self’s idea of a perfect morning is waking up in Café Paradiso in Cork.
It means a good, hearty Irish breakfast with scones and croissants and butter and cream and jam and yogurt:
One of the great pleasures of staying in Café Paradiso is, in addition to the great FOOD, the selection of art books in the rooms.
And dear blog readers know about self’s fascination with windows, right? These are the windows in the Blue Room:
The Blue Room, Café Paradiso, Cork
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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