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Greece: Travel in a Time of Pandemic

March 15, 2021Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo Comments

An Armchair Adventure in Greece … Please join us on Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 5PM PST for an online book event featuring the 8th anthology of award winning travel writing from Wanderland Writers: WANDERING IN GREECE: ATHENS, ISLANDS AND ANTIQUITIES with editors Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Joanna Biggar and some of their contributors. Once again…

California Wildfires: An Apocalyptic Scenario

September 9, 2020Linda Watanabe McFerrin2 comments2020, Apocalyptic Scenario, California Wildfires, Red Dawn, September 9

California Wildfires, September 9, 2020 A Red Dawn Lowry and I woke early this a.m. to an apocalyptic dawn and messages from our niece. She and other friends and family have had to evacuate their homes because of the raging California wildfires. We can’t help but feel that current events reflect warnings about changes to…

A Reading at Copperfield’s Books

October 27, 2019Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsCopperfield's Books, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Navigating the Divide, Novato

Navigating the Divide at Copperfield’s Books in Novato It almost didn’t happen at Copperfield’s Books Novato Saturday night, and I’m surprised anyone came, but diehard and daring friends did brave the loss of electricity engendered by fire danger fears. Thankfully no new fires to add to those already raging, but there were blackout conditions in the end,…

Poem for April

April 14, 2019Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsLinda Watanabe McFerrin, Navigating the Divide

“April is the cruellest month,” wrote T. S. Eliot in Part I of The Waste Land, and I agree. This month has been a really difficult one for me with its shadowy ruff, “breeding” as Eliot says, “Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/memory and desire …” So in that contemplation I am offering up this…

Happy New Year! Where Are You Going in 2017?

February 3, 2017Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsLinda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, Rosemary Gong, Year of the Rooster

Happy New Year! Sun Nien Fai Lok! Xin Nian Juai Le! It’s the Year of the Rooster, and it looks like 2017, the New Year, promises to be a year of intense energy and productivity as well as no small amount of drama. As my neighbors prepare for it in various ways, I like to…

Indigo Twist with Sharon Cooper-Murray

April 22, 2015Linda Watanabe McFerrin1 commentAnton DuMars, boo hags, Dead Love, Gullah traditions, haints, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Sharon Cooper-Murray, South Carolina, twist dolls, Zombies

Morris Island, South Carolina, April 2015 Here we are again, the writers and illustrators who have come together for this year’s Southern Sampler Artists Colony, on Morris Island with Captain Anton DuMars and Sharon Cooper-Murray, aka The Gullah Lady. Anton has stayed with his boat and Sharon has taken us on a walk along the…

Amelia in Marbella

April 8, 2015Linda Watanabe McFerrin11 commentsAmelia Passetti, El Estrecho, feng shui fish, Marbella, travel in Spain

Marbella, Spain, 2015 The pop-eyed fish ogle us from the walls of El Estrecho, a little tapas bar in the seaside village of Marbella on the Mediterranean coast. Bubble-eyed and kite-tailed, they have no business being here, spying upon us as we eat our tapas, drink our wine, lament the unavailability of gazpacho at this…

Hats and Horses: California Chrome

May 18, 2014Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsCalifornia Chrome, Hats, Horse Racing, Horses, Kentucky Derby, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Preakness Stakes

May 17, 2014 I’m totally flipping my lid again. It’s another day at the races, another day of hats and horses, and once again California Chrome, the three-year-old American Thoroughbred foaled in Coalinga, California, is a winner. This time he (yes, I will use the gender specific personal pronoun) won the Preakness Stakes which, when…

Going for the Gold: London Book Festival and Paris Book Festival Awards

May 12, 2014Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsBook Passage, Left Coast Writers, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, London Book Festival, Paris antholgy, Paris Book Festival, Travel, Wanderland Writers, Workshop

Two great pieces of news arrived in my e-mail message box this morning. The first piece of super news: They are finally sending the gold stickers for the front cover of Wandering in Paris: Luminaries and Love in the City of Light, the prize-winning anthology of stories produced at our last international literary workshop. You might…

Here and There: Derby Day and the Mad Hatters

May 2, 2014Linda Watanabe McFerrin3 commentsCharleston, Charleston Jazz Initiative, Derby hats, Dr. Karen Chandler, Five things to look for at the Kentucky Derby, Jack McCray, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, Magar Hatworks, South, Southern Sampler Artists Colony, SSAC, Ty Collins, Yvonne Broaddus

It’s Derby Day today and that means hats! ©Linda Watanabe McFerrin Hats matter, always for some of us, and today and tomorrow—along with mint juleps, thoroughbred horses and other grand Southern traditions—at this year’s Kentucky Derby.  Having just returned from South Carolina and the Southern Sampler Artists Colony where we were celebrating and memorializing Charleston…

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