The Blogger Meets Another Blogger
Saturday evening while awaiting our son and daughter-in-law's check-in at the historic Hotel St. Francis at Union Square in San Francisco, I was attracted by the glass cases mounted on the hotel walls containing historic documentation and hotel memorabilia from the ashes of the April 18, 1906 earthquake. While reading the information contained in one of the several cases, a lady stood next to me and very astutely began to read the information contained in this display. When I noticed she raised a handbag and with great organization removed a pad of paper and pen and began to document. I interrupted her enthusiasm to inquire, are you a blogger. Her kind reply was well, yes I am. We exchanged names and information about our blogs. Gloria gave me a printed sheet of information on her blog.
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Gloria's blog is written in second person. Flynn O'Malley has an easy life, or that is what everyone tells him. On the day of the major earthquake that rocked San Francisco on April 18, 1906, he is 18 and already has a good job, a respectable place to live and a bright future. But when the shaking stops, he finds himself thrown into nasty city politics, the plight of his Chinese friends, and fights over plans to rebuild the city. He meets a woman who makes him want to see how far he can go. He learns that when your world is destroyed, the one thing you are left with is the freedom to create something completely new.
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Gloria has spent over five years "buried" in the files of U.C. Berkley's Bancroft Library and the San Francisco History Center studying photographs, new accounts, maps and eyewitness reports of the 1906 disaster and the efforts to rebuild in its wake.
Gloria's interesting and fact filled blog can be found at http://www.mysfpast.com/
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Aftermath is the author's first novel. Her memoir, Planet Widow, was published by Seal Press in 2006
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