TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Taking a Walk in Santa Monica, with Cecilia

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Taking a Walk in Santa Monica, with Cecilia

Even though 2014 isn't here, I'm living up to my New Year's Resolution to exercise more. Here are pictures of my neighborhood in Santa Monica, taken during my walk yesterday.

You'll see some houses, a golf course, a nursery, Santa Monica, High School, and Bob's market.

Note the gorgeous weather --- aahh, December in Southern California. We've been having warm weather and a sweater is hardly needed during the daytime. It does get chilly at night.

You can click on the picture to make it bigger.

One hour walk!

I love the tile work on this house!

Read also
New Year's Resolutions of some friends (and me!)
New Year: Vietnamese Tet and the Kitchen Gods
Christmas Reflection: The Holy Family as Refugees
Christmas Eve at the Brainards

tags: New Year, Resolution, 2014, Santa Monica, California, exercise, walking

All for now,
Cecilia

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.