Phriday Photos is when you the reader take over, posting anything about anything. (Send to peter.b.abrahams@gmail.com.) But nobody did this week so we return to our regular programming.
Baseball has been the topic here recently. There is no baseball in Mrs. Plansky Goes Rogue, coming July 15 and preorderable. The tour starts that very day, btw, at The Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale. I’ll also be at Murder by the Book in Houston, FoxTale Book Shoppe in Woodstock GA, Book Passage Bookstore & Cafe in Corte Madera CA, Barnes & Noble in the Villages FL, and others. Full list with times and dates coming soon! Meanwhile, no baseball in Mrs. P, but there is tennis:
The two clubs were ancient rivals, ancient for this part of the world, going all the way back to the 1995 founding of New Sunshine. Old Sunshine dated from 1989 and had old Florida pretensions. Its members had to wear white on the court. Half white was the rule at New Sunshine, Kev, for example, now in white shorts and a crimson tee, and Mrs. Plansky in a sleeveless peach-colored tennis dress with white trim perhaps making up ten percent of the whole, or not even. She could be something of an outlaw at times.
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Corte Madera sounds lovely. Just north of San Francisco on the bay side. I llved in San Jose for a year when I was in the 4th grade and my Mother and I revisited in 2010 when I attended my commencement from San Jose State University when I completed my second master’s degree, this one in library and information science. We went to the rose garden, the Rosecrucian museum, a little place with a textile display and had lunch and went to a store in a small Asian community. Also visited our old house (duplex) in our old neighborhood where I got a photo of my Mom in the driveway. They had finally extended the street through so the strawberry farm was gone and so were the walnut trees. In fact, my old elementary school was gone too and it was apartment buildings. Even the library had been replaced with a new one. We went in and looked around. It was a nice library. New fire station too. With all of the new construction I’m surprised the block with our old duplexes was still there.
Unfortunately there is no way I could attend a book signing in Corte Madera. No way I can afford to fly up there and rent a car and no way I could drive as it would likely be two days drivng up and two days driving back. The dogs would starve and go nuts.
Are there any locations further south? Much further south in California? Any place in San Diego County?
There is Mysterious Galaxy on Rosecrans. (They must have moved locations.) Nearest to the airport and just up the street from Liberty Station, the repurposed military base and Cabrillo monument. Across the freeway from Old Town.
La Playa books in Point Loma.
Verbatim Books in North Park.
Warwick’s in La Jolla. Oldest independent book shop and they host author events and book signings.
The Book Catapult in South Park.
Meet Cute Romance Bookshop. (They specialize in romance novels so maybe not. Or maybe so, depending on how much romance is in Mrs Plansky.)
Camino Books, Del Mar. They do mostly children’s books but do host author meet and greets and book fairs. You could mention all of your young adult titles available.
Bay Books, in Coronado.
sandiegomagazine dot com slash things-to-do/best-independent-bookstores-san-diego/
Murder by the Book!! Mom has been several times to see OFA. Now that we live in Dallas, she will have to plan a road trip.
Fingers crossed!!
Went to the San Diego Humane Heritage Circle luncheon today. It’s once a year in June for those that have SDHumane in their wills, trusts or are donors.
As always, I am amazed at all they do. This year the talk centered around disaster response and preparedness, but there was plenty on their other programs. 10,000 kittens cared for in the past year. 22,000 spays and neuters of dogs. The list of disasters they send their response teams to is staggering. They have been to every major disaster in the last decade and were even in Poland to help with the Ukraine exodus when the war started. The most recent is the Pasadena fires and the plan crash here in San Diego. To ensure that pets are not separated from their owners, they take only the stray dogs from shelters to free up space for incoming owner known. Some staff cry for happy that dogs or cats with issued can come to SDHumane instead of possibly being euthanized. SDHumane is in the process of building a new, state of the art, animal hospital so they can continue to treat the treatable, provide spay and neuter and their behavioral center can work with animals until they are ready for a forever home. They do not euthanize any animal that can be medically treated or behaviorally rehabilitated, no matter how long it takes. This is only one of the reasons why support them.
And I thank all of you for supporting them through Team Wonderpuppies annual Walk for the Animals.
The luncheon was delicious.
My bucket list includes attending an OFA book signing. *sigh*. Meanwhile, that rebel Loretta just ignores the social mores and dresses as she pleases! What a wanton woman! I just love her!