Backdrop. By the
window at Bauhaus, a
favorite coffeeshop on
Capitol Hill. It was a
delicious summer
reading respite for me.=)
window at Bauhaus, a
favorite coffeeshop on
Capitol Hill. It was a
delicious summer
reading respite for me.=)
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| BERNADETTE'S HANDCRAFTED BOOKS... Please read about the history of these sweet lovely handcrafted books here. Then buy one for yourself or a friend! These little gems are rare treasures, sometimes, literally, one of a kind. I don't have may left, but I will save them for you!!~~bernadette, 10 march 2011... Materials... Each of these lovely handcrafted books is about 5.5x7.5 inches, and is made from the markings to make them authentic. Each card has an original family photograph on the markings to make them authentic. Each card has an original family photograph on the front, and inside, counting each side of a page as a page, about 25 to 35 pages of artfully laid out original prose. Price, Shipping & Handling... The price for these lovely handmade literary treasures is $18. Includes a small 6x9 manila envelope, which is perfect for storing, gifting, or mailing yourself! Ships via US Priority Mail within 3 business days. (Arrives, most domestic locations, within 3 days. International time schedules will vary. Shipping and handling prices for this deal, via US Priority Mail Flat Rate: $6 to US (Total, $18book + $6ship = $24) $13 to Canada/Mexico (Total, $18book + 13ship = $31) $15 to Other countries (Total, $18book + 15ship = $33) Postscript... The Counting Lesson would both be an excellent celebration of Fathers' Day. The Dutchman is an excellent celebration of writers, artists, poets, dreamers, freethinkers, citywalkers. That means you, right?! I thought so! Discover more below.=) |
| This story, published in the Wisconsin Review in 2003, is now part of my novel, The Boy from Boomstraat. Read more here!! |
| Oh! This story was never published yet! But now is in my novel, On Brigden Road. (You would be one of the few to have this lovely handmade edition!) |
| THE COUNTING LESSON, A SYNOPSIS... It is Lawrence, Kansas, 1961, and Maarten isn't a postal clerk yet, but a newly-landed immigrant, trying to find a way to live in this new country for his family. (Six children is a counting lesson all its own.) In this story, which is now a central chapter in my novel, On Brigden Road, Maarten tries to teach his youngest daughter to count. (English is a new thing for all of them.) But despite the pressures of their new lives there, he rediscovers the simplest, most beautiful bottom line, the one that allows him to go on. This is a story about home...and family. |
| The Dutchman: A Handmade Treasure by Bernadette Maria Joolen.... |
| THE DUTCHMAN, A SYNOPSIS... Meet Maarten van Meer, the highly-literate, creative, self-educated, and reluctant postal clerk... It's four in the morning, and he has to go to work now... (This story is now the lead chapter in my book, The Boy from Boomstraat, available on my Published Books Page.) This story was first published by the Wisconsin Review in 2003, and was chosen for publication by an editor named Martin, like the central character of my story! (That really tickled me.) I had sent it to Wisconsin knowing there was concentration of Dutch roots there. (I wonder if that helped at all!) |
| Excerpt: "He is known as the Dutchman there. He is known as a poet, a fool. He has been known as some kind of fool~~although everyone truly likes him there. They hear some Beatle song, Fool on the Hill, they cannot help but think of him..." |
| The Counting Lesson: A Handmade Treasure by Bernadette Joolen.... |
| Exceprt: "He admires her bright strawberry hair which always seems like an omen to him. Always seems like some mystical magical thing. Like a mark of favor upon a child. Like a rainbow across a clouded sky. Like a fourleaf clover tucked inside a patch of old neglected weeds..." |
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