Faye Cura's Blog, page 9

Tiredness

I’ve been feeling very tired these past weeks, owing to the busy-ness at work coupled w/ the need to undergo a recovery program for slipped disc, w/c had left me bedridden & in terrible pain during the Christmas season. I still experience pins & needles along my left leg when the medicines should have taken […]

Two Novels

After reading Jung Chang���s epic memoir, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, I read Kate Sweeney���s Winds of Heaven &, a few other ���light��� books later, Lindsey Stone���s Awakening to Sunlight. Both novels open with the death of lovers: in Winds, the pilot Julie dies of bone cancer & leaves her pregnant wife Liz & […]

The Sunday Currently No. 7

From Sidda Thornton’s The Sunday Currently, a set of list posts with action verb prompts. C U R R E N T L Y . . . R E A D I N G Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance at home, & David Lamb’s Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns while commuting to work, & at lunchtime. At 600+ […]

War Remnants

At work I’m Sister Goose to college girls from Vietnam, & in small talk they say that the weather & traffic in Ho Chi Minh City is similar to that in the Philippines. I tell them that I’ve been to HCMC, at the start of the year, & I loved it–loved its walkability, & loved the War Remnants Museum, […]

The Sunday Currently No. 6

From Sidda Thornton’s The Sunday Currently, a set of list posts with action verb prompts. C  U  R  R  E  N  T  L  Y  .  .  .  R E A D I N G Suketu Mehta’s brilliant Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (2004), a non-fiction narrative about the people who make up the city: gangsters, detectives, prostitutes, film stars, […]

Untitled (Bupkis)

Royce Weatherly’s 2012 painting, Untitled (Bupkis), is a still life featuring a tumbled paper cup with residue of what seems to be creamed coffee, and the plastic covering of a pack of cigarettes and its plastic lid, on a smooth, plain white background. The work appears to be a study of nothingness, focusing on empty […]

The Sunday Currently No. 5

From Sidda Thornton’s The Sunday Currently, a set of list posts with action verb prompts. C  U  R  R  E  N  T  L  Y  .  .  .  R E A D I N G Just finished reading Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings, about a group of friends who met in an artsy summer camp & who grew up to […]

The Sunday Currently No. 4

From Sidda Thornton’s The Sunday Currently, a set of list posts with action verb prompts. C  U  R  R  E  N  T  L  Y  .  .  .  R E A D I N G Karin Walsh’s Harmony–another story about a woman falling in love with a woman who’s about to get married. Brooke is a closet lesbian […]

The Sunday Currently No. 3

From Sidda Thornton’s The Sunday Currently, a set of list posts with action verb prompts. C  U  R  R  E  N  T  L  Y  .  .  .  R E A D I … Continue reading →

Belleza Filipina

Here’s a slightly modified version of another assignment I did for the online course on art that I’m taking. The instructions are to spend at least one hour in a … Continue reading →