by Dianne Romain | Aug 7, 2019 | Literary events, The Trumpet Lesson: A Novel, Writers and readers
Literary Award Alert Immersed in vampire research, it took me a minute to react to the alert in the top corner of my computer screen: Results Announced: 2019 American Fiction Awards. The awards were to be announced in August, but it was only August 4 and a Sunday. I...
by Dianne Romain | May 13, 2019 | Living in Guanajuato
Having no children of my own, I cherish the children of others. My love and I celebrated Mother’s Day in Guanajuato by making this video for our honorary granddaughter Victoria and her kindergarten classmates in Madrid. The baboon sitting between us comes from...
by Dianne Romain | Feb 25, 2019 | Life in a Mexican Barrio, Living in Guanajuato
I began some years ago to journal about exchanges with my neighbors in the Guanajuato barrio where I live. Like all such writing the details result from memory true and faulty. In my case additional skepticism arises due to my incomplete fluency in my neighbors’...
by Dianne Romain | Sep 9, 2018 | Sofia and Hope: A novel under construction, Writers and readers
Here’s a list of ways. Pick any one you like. Comment on my description of Sofia and Hope. Are you moved emotionally? Do you find the description thought-provoking? Do you find anything in the description “old hat” or “ho hum?” Suggest crazy, playful, serious,...
by Dianne Romain | Aug 1, 2018 | Living in Guanajuato
I know almost nothing about soccer. There was no soccer in the small midwestern town of my childhood. It took falling in love years later in California for soccer to move into my visual field. My love–a man similarly deprived of soccer in his youth–had...
