August 12, 2017 at 5:06 pm (Artists and Writers, Links, Personal Bookshelf, Recommended, Weather, Women Writers)
Tags: Calyx, Literary Magazines, poetry, Saturdays, summer
Moon Over Park Avenue, New York, May 2016
Human Weather (an excerpt)
by Laura Jean Baker
August made a habit: warming our bodies
to the point of sacred.
On Dog Star days for twenty years
we loved to our dew point,
honeyed our moon,
and kneaded our bodies
into the wholesome shape of babies.
Girl-boy-girl
slid into the not-yet warmth
of every other May.
Better late than incomplete,
we made our last
between Autumn sheets; a boy named Frank,
he’d skid across the cusp of June and July.
The poem originally appeared in Calyx, a Journal of Art and Literature by Women, summer 2012.
About Laura Jean Baker: she earned her MFA from the University of Michigan. Her poetry, fiction, and memoir have been published in The Gettysburg Review, Connecticut Review, Cream City Review, Third Coast, Confrontation, and War, Literature, & the Arts.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 29, 2017 at 4:30 pm (Artists and Writers, Dearest Mum, Family, Flowers, Links, Lists, Places, Plays, postaday, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, Cork, Events, Ireland, London, memories, Paris, postaday, postaweek, Readings, Sacramento, Saturdays, Shakespeare, summer, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Washington DC, Wordpress
- Share a photo of something that brings you satisfaction. It can be monumental, minor, or something in between.
— Jen H., The Daily Post
For this post, self decided to kill two birds with one stone. She’ll look back at her fondest memories of 2017 (thus far) — the moments that gave her the most satisfaction.
From Shakespeare’s Globe, her last night in London, June 2017
The Eiffel Tower: May 2017
Quarterly West reading at Sixth Engine, Washington DC, February 2017
Bus Stop (near the Cathedral of Notre Dame)
Waiting for the beginning of Kenneth Macmillan’s beautiful, stunning ballet, “Mayerling”: Saturday, May 13
The Main House, Under a Crescent Moon
The Forest Seen From the Lake: Early March
Going to the Globe and seeing Tristan and Yseult; sorting through old photographs of Dearest Mum; seeing the Eiffel Tower up close; reading her story First Causes at Sixth Engine in Washington, DC; watching Mayerling at the Royal Albert Hall; visiting Cork; Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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February 25, 2017 at 7:25 pm (destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: New York, photography, postaday, postaweek, Saturdays, United Kingdom, websites, Wordpress
Some things just work together: babies and stripes; roadtrips and loud music; beaches and beer. — Ben Huberman, The Daily Post
Here are some good matches from others around WordPress:
Check them out!
Self is gonna be posting from her next trip (United Kingdom) very, very soon!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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February 19, 2017 at 3:57 am (Books, Recommended)
Tags: history, reading lists, Saturdays
This book is about The Battle of Quebec, an epic battle which ended French rule in Canada. The two commanding generals, named in the title, were killed.
Self had never heard of historian Francis Parkman until a few months ago, when an article in the New York Review of Books made passing reference to him.
On p. 54, the French governor of territory disputed by the English sends a message to Queen Alequippa of the Iroquois, who is rumored to hold British sympathies:
- They (the British) hide from you their plans, which are to settle here and drive you away, if I let them. As a good father who tenderly loves his children, and though far away from them bears them always in his heart, I must warn you of the danger that threatens you. The English intend to rob you of their country; and that they may succeed, they begin by corrupting your minds. As they mean to seize the Ohio, which belongs to me, I send to warn them to retire.
Love the way the “belongs to me” is uttered almost casually. About territory. Which belonged first of all to the native Americans.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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February 11, 2017 at 8:08 pm (Movies)
Tags: action movies, blockbusters, Dakota Johnson, indecision, indulgences, London, memories, Saturdays
Fifty Shades Darker or John Wick 2?
Self is a big fan of Dakota Johnson.
Yup, that’s right. DAKOTA JOHNSON.
Plus, the Jamie. Come on. Ever seen this guy’s back blown up on the side of a building?
Well, self has. London, 2015. Somewhere in the South Bank. That back was pretty fine.
She is also a big fan of Keanu Reeves. Yesterday, an NPR reviewer called John Wick 2 the apogee of something: “designer violence” or “designer mayhem” or, anyway, something designer. Niiice!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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February 11, 2017 at 7:27 pm (Artists and Writers, Links, Lists, Movies, Surprises, Women Writers)
Tags: adaptations, Events, Jane Austen, lists, museums, Saturdays
- It is the Year of the Rooster. Kung Hei Fat Choy!
- There will be a Trainspotting 2! Also a Baywatch movie! Also a Barbie movie! Also another Star Wars movie!
- EU will abolish roaming charges for cell phones!
- The world will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen, today’s most bestselling author!
- Museum of the Bible becomes DC’s newest museum!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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February 11, 2017 at 5:50 pm (Books, Conversations, Recommended)
Tags: fantasy, Neil Gaiman, novel, reading lists, Saturdays, supernatural
p. 117:
Shadow opened his eyes.
“Where did all the blood come from?” he asked.
“Other people,” she said. “It’s not mine. I’m filled with formaldehyde, mixed with glycerin and lanolin.”
“It’s easier to kill people, when you’re dead yourself,” she told him.
“It’s still a big deal,” said Shadow.
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February 4, 2017 at 11:44 pm (Books, Conversations, Recommended, television, Women Writers)
Tags: novel, reading lists, satire, Saturdays
NEEDLESS TO SAY, SPOILERS
p. 184:
- “How about,” he said again, slower this time, spreading his hands in an expansive gesture: “Ape House Prime Time.” He gave them all a moment to let their imaginations take flight. “The apes are in charge, twenty-three hours a day. Then, once a day, we do something to affect their environment. Something,” he said, sitting forward, “voted on by the audience. The paying audience. People who have bought the monthly package. Twenty-three hours of doing whatever they want, and then one hour a day of doing something chosen by monthly subscribers.”
This satire of ambitious people (Americans, lol) in a television-driven culture is very sharp.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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November 27, 2016 at 4:04 am (Holidays, Places, postaday)
Tags: happiness, indulgence, postaday, postaweek, Saturdays, shopping, Thanksgiving, Wordpress
Dropping by a mall: Sorry, self is shallow.
T-Shirt Resolution: H & M, Black Friday
Dropping by a beach:
Capitola, CA
Walking around the house in the snuggly-est slippers one can find:
Self found these in Chinatown.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 24, 2016 at 2:52 pm (destinations, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, discoveries, museums, Paris, postaday, postaweek, praise, Saturdays, travel, websites, Wordpress
Liking these WordPress bloggers’ takes on this week’s Photo Challenge: QUEST
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