Travels
AFCC Update 3: Philippine Delegates brought Passion, Music, and Vibrance to the Festival
The basic premise of the Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) is to showcase and highlight masterful storytelling, artwork, imagery that is of Asian content and bringing it to the world’s children. This year, AFCC has upped the ante by doing a regional focus on the Philippines. This marks the beginning of a ‘global trek’ [...]
Photo Journal: Lake Perris (Perris, CA)
Do you wanna know a secret? I have been living in America for 4 1/2 years now but I have never really gone camping. I am not a wilderness girl but I’m in for travel and adventures. I went camping with Mikey and the family (not blood-related but I feel like they’re my own) two [...]
Photo Journal: Thean Hou Temple, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Last week, we launched our Photo Journal section here in GatheringBooks with a few photos from Pulau Ubin, here in Singapore. This time around, I’d be sharing a few of the pictures my husband took (I did the post-processing) while we were in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in March 2009. Our host brought us to Thean [...]
Photo Journal – the Pulau Ubin Experience
For months now, Iphigene, Fats, and myself have been thinking of ways to spice up and enliven our site. I am truly fortunate to be working with such hardworking, committed ladies who constantly indulge me and my creative bursts of ideas. Inspired by TBM’s Travel Photos, we decided to give this Photo Journal feature a go. [...]
Poetry Friday: Bereavement Leave by Joel M. Toledo
Today’s Poetry Friday is a tad dark – yet as all things go, inevitable. I thought that it would be a perfect poem to match some of the photos I took while I was in New Orleans when I did a cemetery tour with good friends. Heidi Mordhorst from My Juicy Little Universe is hosting [...]
