These are surreal times. Due to COVID-19, we are all traveling down a road never before taken; and you may also find yourself homeschooling without a net. I offer these tips to help ease the journey
Headlands Open House Gallery
Still riding high after my first Open House at Headlands Center for the Arts on Sunday, July 29th. Thanks to my husband, daughter and ten friends (three not down here) for gracing me with their presence, making for wonderful day. Keep going to see the gallery of photos from my studio installation based on themes… Continue reading Headlands Open House Gallery
And now…moving on…My letter to the Young Folk
I’m impressed with how you are engaged and involved with today’s political & social issues. I’m hopeful for America’s future because YOU are that future. And yet it breaks my heart to see you filled with stress at having to witness the moral degradation of late. Exhausted from the two-year fiasco we’ve endured we’re also… Continue reading And now…moving on…My letter to the Young Folk
The First Bite
America has a multitude of best-kept secrets. The Albany Georgia Civil Rights Movement is one of them. It started in the fall of 1961. I was seven years old, and my late sister, Betty, was just shy of twelve.To my knowledge our late parents—like most of the more than 20,000 blacks in Albany at the… Continue reading The First Bite
Pins & Needles!
I hope you and yours are coping as well as you can with COVID-19. Two things: #1. This is last call for this site—I will be retiring peachseedmonkey.com by March 1, 2021. You haven’t heard from me in a while on this site because, as many of you know, I have a NEW site: anitagailjones.com.… Continue reading Pins & Needles!
Last of Our Palindrome Days
Howdy, howdy! It’s been a while. Hope you and yours are surviving our crazy presidential election process. Take a break and read my new post on anitagailjones.com
5/1/19: Reading at E.M. Bookstore: Oakland
I will be reading from my novel manuscript, Peach Seed Monkey, this Wednesday, May 1st at E.M. Wolfman Bookstore. Hope you can come—bring friends & family!Read about this exciting event on AnitaGailJones.com!
World Book Day
Read new post on my new site and subscribe while there! https://anitagailjones.com/world-book-day/
Headlands Spring Open House ~ This Sunday
You’re invited to join the fun this Sunday for my final Headlands Open House. Please read all about it by visiting my NEW WEBSITE: ANITAGAILJONES.com!* *Yes, I am phasing out this Peach Seed Monkey site after seven wonderful years. I hope you faithful subscribers will visit the new site and sign up there to CONTINUE… Continue reading Headlands Spring Open House ~ This Sunday
AnitaGailJones.com: Now Live!
Thanks in large part to your faith in this work, Peach Seed Monkey begins searching for our publisher, and I’m pulling back curtains to show my own backstory, and little known facts. AGJ.com has lots of new content, photos, audio/video and more. A fellow writer and dear friend and I are heading to a mega… Continue reading AnitaGailJones.com: Now Live!
New Look—New Lease…
As of this Friday, The Ides of March*—I will be moving to a new site—Anita Gail Jones—in preparation for query process kick off at AWP conference in two weeks. Always, thankful to you for following PSM. I cherish our visits inside the warm wood walls (alliteration couldn’t be helped), but WordPress has retired this theme… Continue reading New Look—New Lease…
On the Move…
Long time, no see! Heading to Portland, Oregon later this month for the AWP Conference, but first, let me tell you this, which you won’t believe: For over two months, I’ve been immersed in a mind-numbing, tedious but extremely rewarding pass back through my manuscript to rein in my overuse of “the”. Yep. What can… Continue reading On the Move…
LIYANA ~ A Must See Film
Rarely are we privileged enough to see a film having not been inundated (for months sometimes) with previews that show and tell way too much. (I’ll never understand this.) Independent films have a curse and a blessing—no deep pockets to flood the market with previews means the story is guarded and fresh for first time… Continue reading LIYANA ~ A Must See Film