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Here is a pic of the baby seal waving at me from “Children’s Pool” at La Jolla’s Torrey Pines State Park. Click the picture to enlarge.
PS I don’t have an apartment yet, despite extensive searching over two weeks online and three days in person down in SD. Apparently they are more expensive and harder to find than PO Boxes. So, know a good and affordable condo to rent in North County? Let me know!
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
