Radio Shows, Rain, and Renumeration

At July 27, 2011
By Jeannine Gailey
In economic worries, radio shows with Jeannine, shuttered doors, summer rain
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Back in Seattle, the sky cloudy and the temps hovering in the sixties, you might imagine that our 80+ degree drive home from Port Townsend on Sunday had all been hallucination. But to prove that the sun does actually shine here once in a while, here’s a picture from the Sequim lavender fields (about a 45 minute drive from Port Townsend, FYI, for you future tourists.)

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that I’ll be on the radio tonight in California (so those of you near Cupertino, be sure to tune in.) I posted a link to the podcast as the interview will be up later for the rest of you!
Jeannine Hall Gailey will be interviewed (and do a reading from her new book, She Returns to the Floating World) on JP Dancing Bear’s radio show Out of Our Minds on 91.5 in Cupertino, CA, from 8-9 PM Pacific time on Wednesday, July 27th. Podcast will be available afterwards at http://outofourminds.posterous.com/.
By the way, if you go to that site now, check out Dana Levin’s interview on Sky Burial from two weeks ago. Pretty great! JP Dancing Bear asks great questions. I hope I can come up with coherent answers!

I was thinking a little bit about our economy, on our drive home, seeing so many shuttered storefronts in Port Townsend, Sequim, and the surrounding small towns. This is the worst economic time I have ever lived through. Trying to make a living as any kind of writer in this era of closed bookstores and publishing revolution is tenuous at best, especially with academic jobs being cut left and right and states and the Federal government slashing arts funding.
On the other hand, I have been celebrating the good news of writer friends (a book taken here, a chapbook contest there) and have been so grateful for everyone who has bought a copy of my new book. I won’t stop writing because I am worried about paying student loans and balancing my checkbook. I won’t stop enjoying the occasional sunny day just because we’re having a frigid rain-filled summer.