New Poems in UCity Review, Wonder Woman, some news, Seattle landscapes and fluffy cats and cars!
- At June 04, 2017
- By Jeannine Gailey
- In Blog
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First of all, my thoughts and prayers to the victim’s of yesterday’s attacks in London and the victims and families of victims in Portland. It hasn’t been very long since my last blog post, which was right after the attacks at Manchester. There has been too much terrible in the news lately.
I’ve got four new poems in the brand-new issue of UCity Review – you can read them here. Two of them were inspired by the recent accident at Hanford, and the other two are the musings about luck and destiny.
In other news, since I last wrote, I got an MRI and the test results (no change in the liver lesions, which is pretty good news – not as good as them disappearing, but definitely better than growth or spreading.) I decided to lease a new car, an experiment since we have not been a two-car family in over ten years (as you know, I struggled with some neurological issues for some time that limited my mobility, but physical therapy and training have really improved – as have safety features that make it a little easier to drive!) I feel like a teenager vrooming down my street. I forgot how fun it is to drive! It was also something I promised myself when I was diagnosed last year with that terminal cancer (the terminal part might not be coming so quickly after all!) – that I was going to be able to drive myself around again. I doubled up on my physical therapy and here I am!
The reading in Tacoma was fun. It was great to meet Kendra and I got to hang out a little with my artist friend Michaela Eaves. It was a beautiful night to be in Tacoma, too – and King’s Books is always fun to visit. Here are a couple of pics. Also, me with the new car and I didn’t mention that right after I got the car, I stopped into Woodinville’s Barnes and Nobles and got to chatting with one of the employees, and he showed me my book on the shelf!
We’ve had some beautiful weather and you just want to capture all the fleeting beauty of the flowers that bloom for a week under the blue skies that peek out in May and early June. Also, my cat is very fluffy. That has to be attested to in pictorial form every so often.
It was Wonder Woman Day yesterday, and I’m getting ready to see the (long overdue) new move tonight. I’m so excited. I’m going to post my poem, “Wonder Woman Dreams of the Amazon,” here along with a movie poster and a bit of art I got at Seattle’s ComicCon years ago.
Jennifer Barricklow
Congratulations on all counts! What wonderful news! 🙂 I hope you enjoy the movie – I was grinning through most of it like an idiot, laughing out loud in spots because I was so delighted. I have a few quibbles, but none of them weighty enough to diminish the joy. I can’t wait to see it again!