By Barbara Falconer Newhall
I had a great September — starting with on my birthday September 6, which lasted only a few hours because Jon and I were on a plane to Shanghai when somewhere over the Pacific we hit the International Date Line and September 6 turned abruptly into September 7 and I fell asleep.
Following on the heels of our two weeks in the fast-paced, go-getter cities of China was the weekend I spent in the 95-degree heat of Texas for the annual Religion Newswriters Association conference.
There was lots of furious note-taking and, every chance I got, lots of touting my spiritual journey/memoir book, Wrestling With God to RNA friends, colleagues and anyone else who’d listen.
Then came the icing on the cake — two days of tooling around quirky Austin, TX, with Ginger, an old San Francisco Chronicle copy desk pal, and her husband.
You’ll be hearing more about my September adventures and photo ops — China, Texas, God, old friends — in the coming weeks.
Hmmmm. Looks like I’m going to need to get another expression for my face — besides that big smile — when getting my picture taken.
Love the hat, Barb. Love your blog too, of course!
I like the hat. I remember noticing during a visit to the USSR back in the Iron Curtain days that young Soviets loved to collect these cheap, thin pins from places they visited. It seems the Chinese are still manufacturing the Mao buttons — either that or I scored some mid-century antiques.