Freelance journalist, novelist, art lover. https://bsky.app/profile/erikamailman.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/erikamailman.bsky.social/post/3luftmizgis2uOn July 6, 1944, my relative Donald Cook, 9, wandered around outside the remains of the burned big top. He was looking for his mother Mildred Cook and his two younger siblings, Edward & Eleanor. Long post, but it's so important. Time is of the essence; please share widely. #circusfire #hartford 1/1920 Jul 2025 15:55 +0000at://did:plc:cdr5csshpkxosdwyjtyeyn6k/app.bsky.feed.post/3luftmizgis2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/erikamailman.bsky.social/post/3lg2ppada3222After about two decades, I returned to the Tonga Room (actually on the same date that Anthony Bourdain visited back in 2012, I learned). It is a tiki thunderstorm of a place! Adore and thoroughly recommend. I will NOT let even a few years pass by again. #TongaRoom https://www.timeout.com/usa/news/this-legendary-tiki-space-in-san-francisco-has-thunderstorms-and-rain-01142519 Jan 2025 01:53 +0000at://did:plc:cdr5csshpkxosdwyjtyeyn6k/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg2ppada3222https://bsky.app/profile/erikamailman.bsky.social/post/3lf4y6bury22zI adore this hotel and hey, it's where the San Francisco Writers Conference will be held next month. I'll be presenting! @sfwc.bsky.social https://www.timeout.com/san-francisco/news/the-largest-hotel-lobby-in-the-world-is-right-here-in-sf-heres-what-its-like-to-stay-there-010725 @hyattregency.bsky.social #Architecture #Brutalism #Hotel #HyattRegency #SanFrancisco07 Jan 2025 06:05 +0000at://did:plc:cdr5csshpkxosdwyjtyeyn6k/app.bsky.feed.post/3lf4y6bury22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/erikamailman.bsky.social/post/3lbklyx5oic2dI love this Black-owned, woman-owned business in Oakland doing sustainable work to keep mannequins out of the grinder, literally: https://www.timeout.com/san-francisco/news/need-a-kitschy-gift-idea-mannequin-madness-is-your-answer-112224 . . . #MannequinMadnes #Mannequin #Holiday #Gift #Christmas #Hanukkah #Kwanzaa #Oakland #BlackBusiness #WomanOwned #Quirky #kitsch22 Nov 2024 18:24 +0000at://did:plc:cdr5csshpkxosdwyjtyeyn6k/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbklyx5oic2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/erikamailman.bsky.social/post/3lb3esw42722cVisited the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Home & the Nat'l Women's Rights Historical Park in New York. If her name isn't familiar, we have her & others to thank for FIGHTING for women to be able to vote in our country. Closed for the season but we peered through windows and sat a spell to rock on the porch16 Nov 2024 17:05 +0000at://did:plc:cdr5csshpkxosdwyjtyeyn6k/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb3esw42722chttps://bsky.app/profile/erikamailman.bsky.social/post/3layve3nsb22qIn the department of silly things, today I was thinking about how odd the word "grownups" is: a childish (ironically) combination of words to get to a noun that illustrates some sort of achievement. If I add a mental breath between grown and up ("She's a grown up") it seems even sillier.15 Nov 2024 17:23 +0000at://did:plc:cdr5csshpkxosdwyjtyeyn6k/app.bsky.feed.post/3layve3nsb22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/erikamailman.bsky.social/post/3laxt3yo2bc2qHello, 1st post. I'm a journalist (Time Out, WashPost, WSJ, others) and author (best known book is not well known, The Witch's Trinity). Three days after the election, I visited the Women's Rights National Historical Park and sat in a rocking chair on Elizabeth Cady Stanton's porch. Lots to digest.15 Nov 2024 07:10 +0000at://did:plc:cdr5csshpkxosdwyjtyeyn6k/app.bsky.feed.post/3laxt3yo2bc2q