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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…

Writers Return from Japan

September 19, 2015Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsLinda Watanabe McFerrin, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, Travel, Wanderland Writers, Workshop

We’re back! After wandering all over Japan, the writers have returned with some amazing stories. I’ve heard bits and pieces and can’t wait to read, edit, help publish and celebrate many of those fantastic tales. You’ll find some of them here or on our Wanderland Writers website. For others you’ll need to go to additional…

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…

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…

My Beloved Book Addiction

January 14, 2014Linda Watanabe McFerrin8 commentsbook addiction, Book Passage, bookstores, Dead Love, Grace Grafton, Left Coast Writers, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, Wanderland Writers

Last night at Book Passage in the Ferry Plaza for a Left Coast Writers poetry event, I realized that I never enter a bookstore without wanting to read every single book therein, which I know is impossible. I have this strange feeling that tucked between the covers is a message that I can’t afford to…

Chasing Our Changing Bay Nature

January 13, 2011Linda Watanabe McFerrin1 comment

Last Dance on San Bruno Mountain Magazine Issue Jan-Mar 2011 by Linda Watanabe McFerrin Chuang Tzu and the Butterfly Chuang Tzu in dream became a butterfly, And the butterfly became Chuang Tzu at waking. Which was the real–the butterfly or the man? Who can tell the end of the endless changes of things? The water…

New Orleans: The City that Care Forgot

November 28, 2010Linda Watanabe McFerrinNo CommentsDead Love, Faulkner-Wisdom Literary Competition, Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Travel, New Orleans, South, Travel, Voodoo Museum, Workshop, Writers, Zombies

Laissez les bons temps rouler! And we certainly did at Words and Music 2010 in New Orleans in spite of the fact that the theme was “The Literature of War and Collateral Damage,” or maybe because of it and because “When faced with disaster, the best medicine is laughter” … yes, that’s a direct quote…

From Tokyo to the Tallgrass …

June 14, 2010Linda Watanabe McFerrin2 commentsContributing Editor, Mia Magazine, Shinto, Tallgrass Prairie, Tokyo, Travel, Writers

I am lost, swimming in the soft light of the bison’s umber eye, where I feel myself reflected. Above me the sky arcs, an incredible big top of robin’s-egg-blue that dips down to meet the vast carpet of tawny grasses on a distant horizon. I do not think it is especially wise to be staring…

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