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…
Linda Watanabe McFerrin – The Plot Thickens This is the first in a series of monthly workshops on craft that I’ll be leading at Book Passage in Corte Madera. The workshops will cover plot, character building, scene making, dialogue, and more. Dominican College credit is available for workshop participants. 01/25/2014 10:00 am End: 01/25/2014 4:00 pm…
Last night at the Market Bar in the Ferry Plaza in San Francisco, we were dining among the Finns, so I had to share this story … ©Linda Watanabe McFerrin “Il ya des mains pareilles a des feuille capturees. Et d’autres qui parle sans arret dan leur collerette de rires.” —Jaime Mais, Au crible de…
Palm Desert, California: December 22, 2012 ©Linda Watanabe McFerrin Spectacular and panoramic morning at 6:30 a.m. on the balcony of my villa at Palm Desert’s Desert Springs Marriott and here I was getting set to rhapsodize about the snow-dusted San Jacinto Mountains in the distance, the towering palms, the Mary-and-Joseph-gee-whiz-I-can’t-believe-it’s-almost-Christmas baby-blue sky with its little…
