Barbara Abercrombie's Blog, page 20
April 21, 2011
Free Workshop
My friend Rob Daly has saved me from more computer problems than you can imagine. He can save you too. To get acquainted, he offers Meet Your Mac workshops, first time free, that will answer any questions about your Mac....
April 19, 2011
Upcoming Events
It's that time again, folks. Marketing books. Wonderful writers who have essays in CHERISHED will be reading at the bookstore events, including Carolyn See, Samantha Dunn, Linzi Glass, Monica Holloway, Billy and Judith Mernit, Jackie Winspear, Jenny Rough, Cecilia Brainard,...
April 17, 2011
Living a Useful Life
We had a memorial for my teacher Norma Almquist at my house yesterday. It was one of those perfect California days: bright sun, warm, a breeze, the ocean and sky a clear zinging blue. We sat out in the garden...
April 13, 2011
First Review for CHERISHED
Library Journal review for Cherished Cherished: 21 Writers on Animals They Have Loved and Lost. New World Library, dist. by PGW. Apr. 2011. c.224p. ed. by Barbara Abercrombie. ISBN 9781577319573. pap. $14.95. PETS Abercrombie (writing, Univ. of California–Los Angeles), after...
April 11, 2011
Reading Where Written
It is a strange and wonderful thing to read a book in the place where it was written. There are layers: the book itself, the impact of place, plus your own experience in this place. Reading Gift From the Sea...
April 4, 2011
320. Going Down the Chute Tina Fey warns about being too ...
320. Going Down the Chute Tina Fey warns about being too precious with your work; you have to try your hardest to do your best but then you let go. "You can't be that kid standing at the top of...
March 31, 2011
Family
I'm going on the road again in the morning with my computer and a daughter - plus a son-in-law, two granddaughters, and R. We're headed for a week on Sanibel Island to collect seashells. (And yes, I'm trying to find...
March 30, 2011
The Telling Detail
A flyer appears in the mailbox. Fifi a "skittish" Chihuahua is missing: call Tanya and a phone number is given. There's also this: "Wearing an aquamarine sweater." * (and if anyone has seen a Chihuahua on the west side of...
March 28, 2011
Norma Almquist
My beloved teacher, the poet Norma Almquist, has died. Because of her kindness, her patience, her encouragement, inspiration and guidance, I became a writer. When I went to my first creative writing class at Harbor Community College in 1973 I...
March 25, 2011
Read This
My friend and student, Elizabeth Aquino, has a beautiful blog - both in content and design. And also in name: a moon, worn as if it had been a shell Check it out: http://www.elizabethaquino.blogspot.com/ Her latest post is about baking...
