8-22-16
I will make plans to visit Kaohsiung this Sunday to attend the Writers’ Workshop being re-started there. Perhaps I will go down by Taiwan Railroad to enjoy the landscape while it’s still light outside, and return by HSR in the night, twice the price and twice as fast.
8-25-16
I’m all clear to go to Kaohsiung this Sunday for what John Nipper called “Next Writer’s Workshop Potluck” (sic). Leona will help me buy a Taiwan Railroad ticket down and a HSR ticket back. It will take almost three hours to go down on a pleasant daylight trip, and a little more than an hour to return in the dark.
I invited David Wood, Darren Grant, and Michael Tron Smith from this area. I don’t think Darren has responded. David Wood took the liberty to forward the event on his and David Brandon’s Lost & Found Poetry Facebook page without indicating if he was going or not; Brandon didn’t comment, either. I IM’ed David Wood personally and he said he was busy at the restaurant Saturday. When I reminded him the event was for Sunday he could only cover his false excuse with a “I’ll see what I can do” and pre-empted a positive response using his new daughter as a back-up excuse. Michael Smith responded like Kaohsiung was on another planet but asked why we don’t make a poetry workshop here. I hit him up on the idea of collaboration and we will chat today at noon. No one contacted Taiwan Writers from Taipei to go, and I won’t, either; though they post my writings, no one in that group has contacted me. They seem like a clique. There won’t be any united Taiwan writers’ group gathering.
Leona’s sister, Shih-Ling (Celine) and niece, Shieh-Chi, will be coming up from Tainan today on Taiwan Railroad; her unemployed husband ‘must’ stay home and watch their son who can’t come because he has to go to work. Shih-Ling and Shieh-Chi will be here for an Italian dinner I am preparing tonight. They will sleep in the tea room until Sunday morning; four nights.
8-26-16
Leona has my tickets for Kaohsiung this Sunday. She had to wait for cancellations after midnight on Taiwan Railroad for my reservation. She reserved the return on HSR earlier in the day.
8-27-16
The Taipei Writers Facebook page, a group I became aware of and joined last week (I’m not sure if they’re the same people as Taiwan Writers Facebook page) has some kind of “Critique Meet” at a Mr. Brown Coffee in Taipei at 5pm this Sunday, too, but I don’t know anyone from them. I haven’t posted to their page, yet. At least I know Malcolm from Kaohsiung, on the phone, on line, and who I exchanged gu-zheng and Mac charger; I feel some affinity. I have followed John Nipper and the others’ posts.
I am excited about going alone to Kaohsiung tomorrow . It will be nice to meet Malcolm and some new English-speaking people interested in writing. It will be a long trip leaving the house at 1:00pm to get the train to Taichung Station for the T.C. Limited Express #123 at 2:17pm. Leona reminded me I have to go out swiping my Yo-Yo card and then come back onto the platform. It is scheduled to arrive at 4:50pm. I’ll have time to transfer to the subway and walk to Kala’s home. I’ll have to leave her home by 9:00pm to get the 9:40pm HSR in Zuo-Ying station. I will be at the potluck for three hours. HSR #1264 returns to Taichung at 10:28pm and then I have to transfer for the local Taiwan Rail to Tai-Yuan station. I won’t get home until around 11:30pm, about a six-hour journey for a three-hour potluck. The cost is around 1300NT-$41. I saved 321NT-$10 by taking Taiwan Rail down but lost 1 1/2 hours. Time isn’t money; the ride down will be nice; I will relax. If there is a next-time, I can cut the travel time to about four hours by taking HSR round-trip. It would be nice if someone accompanied me, but what of that. I have to do things by myself to do what I like, in Taiwan or New York.
8-28-16
I will make potato latkes this morning for the Kaohsiung Writers Workshop Potluck this evening, and even bring the open jar of Ikea apple sauce. I regret not buying the pouch of New Zealand sour cream at Jason's a few days ago but I didn't think of the latkes until I awoke this morning. The latkes are the nicest food I could bring; home-made, vegetarian (though not vegan with an egg) with kosher matzo meal. I can wrap it in paper plates so I don't have an empty dish to carry home.
8-27-16
The Taipei Writers Facebook page, a group I became aware of and joined last week (I’m not sure if they’re the same people as Taiwan Writers Facebook page) has some kind of “Critique Meet” at a Mr. Brown Coffee in Taipei at 5pm this Sunday, too, but I don’t know anyone from them. I haven’t posted to their page, yet. At least I know Malcolm from Kaohsiung, on the phone, on line, and who I exchanged gu-zheng and Mac charger; I feel some affinity. I have followed John Nipper and the others’ posts.
I am excited about going alone to Kaohsiung tomorrow . It will be nice to meet Malcolm and some new English-speaking people interested in writing. It will be a long trip leaving the house at 1:00pm to get the train to Taichung Station for the T.C. Limited Express #123 at 2:17pm. Leona reminded me I have to go out swiping my Yo-Yo card and then come back onto the platform. It is scheduled to arrive at 4:50pm. I’ll have time to transfer to the subway and walk to Kala’s home. I’ll have to leave her home by 9:00pm to get the 9:40pm HSR in Zuo-Ying station. I will be at the potluck for three hours. HSR #1264 returns to Taichung at 10:28pm and then I have to transfer for the local Taiwan Rail to Tai-Yuan station. I won’t get home until around 11:30pm, about a six-hour journey for a three-hour potluck. The cost is around 1300NT-$41. I saved 321NT-$10 by taking Taiwan Rail down but lost 1 1/2 hours. Time isn’t money; the ride down will be nice; I will relax. If there is a next-time, I can cut the travel time to about four hours by taking HSR round-trip. It would be nice if someone accompanied me, but what of that. I have to do things by myself to do what I like, in Taiwan or New York.
8-28-16
I will make potato latkes this morning for the Kaohsiung Writers Workshop Potluck this evening, and even bring the open jar of Ikea apple sauce. I regret not buying the pouch of New Zealand sour cream at Jason's a few days ago but I didn't think of the latkes until I awoke this morning. The latkes are the nicest food I could bring; home-made, vegetarian (though not vegan with an egg) with kosher matzo meal. I can wrap it in paper plates so I don't have an empty dish to carry home.
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