Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Nov 5, 2009, 2:43 am

Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Nov 4, 2009, 6:32 am
Postcards - by Margaret Atwood I'm thinking about you. What else can I say? The palm trees on the reverse are a delusion; so is the pink sand. What we have are the usual fracture...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Nov 2, 2009, 10:19 pm
I came across this historic video some weeks ago when I was doing research for Old Postcard Wednesday and a postcard featuring the Claremont Inn. It appears that the former inn and The Claremont Theat...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Nov 1, 2009, 2:49 am
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Oct 31, 2009, 2:58 am
Happy Halloween, everyone. This outstanding-in-its-field scarecrow is along the country road about eight miles from Silverton. I took the shot on my way home from my solo beach trip a few weeks a...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Oct 30, 2009, 6:43 am
I've had a good time this month posting songs my mother taught me as a tribute to her. Now I'm down to the final two days of the month (and, yes, I actually do have one for Halloween) with one...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Oct 29, 2009, 2:00 am
There probably aren't many women who were little girls in the 1950s who didn't learn this song, and I'd venture to guess that most learned it from their mothers.....or at least sang it wit...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Oct 28, 2009, 3:03 am
Glocca Morra is a fictional Irish village that seems very real in the play and movie, Finian's Rainbow. The Battle of Gettysburg in the Civil War was all too real, the horror of which we might onl...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Oct 27, 2009, 5:19 am
... My love for classical music and opera (adored by her father) was not passed from my mom to me, was developed on my own. It was interesting to share that appreciation with her after she retired an...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Oct 26, 2009, 4:10 am
{This is the 11th in an undetermined number of songs my mother taught me I'm posting this month in her memory. For background, please visit the post containing the first song, Ivory Tower.} ...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Oct 22, 2009, 4:43 am
{This is the eighth in an undetermined number of songs my mother taught me I'm posting this month in her memory. For background, please visit the post containing the first song, Ivory Tower.} ...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Oct 21, 2009, 3:00 am
This postcard was purchased either in the mid-1960s when our family visited the area, or in the early-1970s when my mother was there alone. Both short trips were pilgrimages for her back to Trinity Co...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Oct 19, 2009, 3:08 pm
  {This is the sixth in an undetermined number of songs my mother taught me I'm posting this month in her memory. For background, please visit the post containing the fir...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Oct 18, 2009, 2:27 am
{This is the fifth in an undetermined number of songs my mother taught me I'm posting this month in her memory. For background, please visit the post containing the first song, Ivory Tower.} ...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Oct 15, 2009, 2:48 am
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Oct 14, 2009, 5:05 am
This postcard may be rare. It is one of the oldest in my grandmother's collection; her New York postcards were separated from the others and must have been special mementos from when the family li...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Oct 13, 2009, 4:34 am
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Oct 12, 2009, 5:25 am
{This is the fourth in an undetermined number of songs my mother taught me I'm posting this month in her memory. For background, please visit the post containing the first song, Ivory Tower.} ...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Oct 11, 2009, 3:05 am
{This is the third in an undetermined number of songs my mother taught me I'm posting this month in her memory. For background, please visit the post containing the first song, Ivory Tower.} ...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Oct 10, 2009, 5:39 am
Photo "Dewey Spiderweb" via download purchase   © Art@digitalheights.com | Dreamstime.com {This is the second in an undetermined number of songs my mother taught me I'm pos...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Oct 8, 2009, 8:42 pm
A friend (left) with my mother (right) at Lawton's Hot Springs In this month that has become an annual remembrance of my mother for me -- she died in October 2000 -- songs are in my head. ...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Oct 7, 2009, 2:09 am
Then Now Review at yelp.com, dated 4/2/2000, of the Municipal Auditorium, by Sean O., aka "K.C. kid living in D.C." This magnificent building is sort of like the Radio Ci...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Oct 5, 2009, 6:07 am
Willow - by  李商隱 Lǐ Shāngyǐn (812-858)  Boundless the leaves roused by spring, Countless the twigs which tremble in the dawn. Whether the willow can love or not, Never...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Oct 3, 2009, 4:18 am
It was at this turn that my parents, abandoning hope of the garden, moved us away from its outskirts forever. Twice daily my father rode on a trolley car that groaned to a stop at every other corner b...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Oct 2, 2009, 4:54 am
(Menus from Mable's Scrapbook. Click images to enlarge.) Passenger train graphic by abkl designs .
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 30, 2009, 3:34 am
"The driving force behind the San Francisco cable car system came from a man who witnessed a horrible accident on a typically damp summer day in 1869. Andrew Smith Hallidie saw the toll slippery grade...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 29, 2009, 4:48 am
I love the wind in the desert. It's strong outside on the Alvord now, and it makes my Fields Motel room cozy and a secure place to be with a great book, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which I ...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 28, 2009, 4:21 am
My previous post was full of excitement that we were seeing La Boheme in Portland on Sunday. The opera was marvelous! It was so good to be back, and we won't let years pass again before our next o...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 27, 2009, 3:21 am
Posted using ShareThis photo of "the young and vibrant cast" of Portland Opera's production of La Boheme. interview with cast members by sponsoring radio station kink.fm - OPERA You Can LOVE...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 26, 2009, 4:59 am
Now when on Earth would I ever post a picture taken in front of a Nevada brothel except as a loose follow-up to my previous post titled cathouses? The answer is likely never so take a little trip into...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 24, 2009, 3:23 am
To the cat, the experimenter is problematic.  - quote found at kessels.com When my sister and I were children we made a pact that we would never marry when we grew up. Instead, we would l...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 23, 2009, 3:08 am
This week's postcard is among others in the folder pictured at top, with a postmark barely detectable as sometime in the 1940s. I'll feature some of the others in later Wednesday posts. For th...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 22, 2009, 4:40 am
You Have the Fears of an Adult Your fears don't paralyze you - they are very rooted in reality. You have had enough loss in your life to know more is to come, and you dread it. Compared to m...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 20, 2009, 3:51 am
We saw Julie and Julia Friday night at The Palace Theatre in downtown Silverton. It's a marvelous movie, and how Meryl Streep could not win the Oscar for best actress for her role as Julia Child i...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 17, 2009, 3:33 am
... white photo of a darling little girl, that these paltry donations were for an organization fighting Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Myeloma. I went to a silent place inside and thought a moment about my...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 16, 2009, 2:47 am
For much of the twentieth century Atlantic City's hotels dominated the skyline, a concrete embodiment of the resort as a fantasy world. These architectural confections provided much more than a go...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 15, 2009, 5:45 am
A denizen of another room was my mother's sister Minnie, a frowze with a loose mouth and hair like dyed straw, our "good-hearted slob", always ready to give any of us the shirt off her back and to...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 14, 2009, 4:44 am
In my sidebar the second goody from the top is A.Word.A.Day, and when I saw that today's word is Beau Brummel it brought back memories of an early 1960s group, The Beau Brummels. Wow, what a simpl...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 13, 2009, 5:51 am
  Quatrains-by Robert Service  One said: Thy life is thine to make or mar, To flicker feebly, or to soar, a star; It lies with thee—the choice is thine, is thine, To hit t...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 12, 2009, 3:04 am
(video length 1:09) Willow will be a year old next month. She and I have a bond that I treasure. Each of our pets is unique and loved for special qualities, as is true for most pet owners. But some c...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 10, 2009, 4:17 am
To Posterity - by Bertolt Brecht Indeed I live in the dark ages! A guileless word is an absurdity. A smooth forehead betokens A hard heart. He who laughs Has not yet heard The terrible tidings. Ah, ...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 9, 2009, 3:40 am
According to the United States Census Bureau, as of September 9, 2009, the population of this country is 301,198,307. On this date the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, will give a pr...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 8, 2009, 6:08 am
Here's something for American kids who are being kept from watching President Obama speak to students today. This advice might pass parental inspection because it mentions prayer. ........Psssst,...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 7, 2009, 3:12 am
". . . Did you not know moonbeams are slick as soap, Davie?"Davie gaped at me as if I already was askate on moonbeams, but he did the windows fine. Next I had him wash the blackboard, then fill our bu...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 6, 2009, 4:08 am
These shots show the new Oregon State Fair 55-foot tower, made from recycled steel and created to mark Oregon's sesquicentennial this year. The new tower is meant to recreate the old State Fair Fl...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 5, 2009, 6:05 am
Over the three-day weekend, in between jumping puddles if the predictions for rain are correct, I will post a short video and a couple pictures each day from our visit to the 2009 Oregon State Fair. I...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 3, 2009, 2:29 am
-photo by Will Gortoa Childhood -by Rainer Maria Rilke It would be good to give much thought, before you try to find words for something so lost, for those long childhood afternoons you knew that va...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 2, 2009, 10:58 am
The great sea reach of the Columbia ranges in width from about three miles to ten miles and was bridged just recently at Astoria. When it comes to fall and force, no other American river can match thi...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Sep 1, 2009, 3:05 am
A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. - Rainer Maria Rilke Fourteen years ago today Michael and I were married in New York City. We spent a week in New Yo...
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Lydia M. posted an article on Writerquake - Aug 30, 2009, 2:59 am
We saw Pink Martini in concert Friday night at the Oregon State Fair. I rarely use this, but.....OMG! Pink Martini is now on tour (schedule-click!) ..... heads up all you living near the Hollywood Bo...
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