Balboa Bay Resort

• Both novels feature protagonists who lose parents and partners, and both explore their themes via writer-narrators who are producing fictions.
• In the story, Susie is employed by a crying room where people go to express their emotions.
• She thought of the clink, clink, clink of sharp metal implements chipping away patiently at cold, dark, stone.
• They reminded Susie of miners in a cave, with a small circle of light above them to illuminate their features.
• She thought of the clink, clink, clink of sharp metal implements chipping away patiently at cold, dark, stone.
• The tree, growing against the odds in a hot climate, amid the bones of a long-dead calf, symbolises hope.

Distruped expectations

• Briohny Doyle’s Why We Are Here, which might be labelled as autofiction, also disrupts expectations.
• She lives in a condemned apartment, with trappings of faded grandeur, making Silver City almost affordable.
• When Franz is expelled by the closing of the borders, BB remains alone with her dog Baby and spectral visitations from “Him”.
• BB imagines these pronouncements are philosophical observations by Simone Weil, whose book Gravity and Grace she reads as a “vision of surrender”.
• Although she finds a language to engage with troubled dogs like the Doberman, she’s distrusted by local trainers who see her as competition.

Elegy

• Maybe it’s elegy.
• Maybe it’s elegy.
• They decide that elegy is having a moment, but that it’s also “problematic, Judeo-Christian, colonial, or at the very least nostalgic”.
• But in elegy, the way a person dies is not the point.
• With the climate catastrophe looming in the background, Doyle and Shirm are renovating the elegy for the current moment.

• DALLAS, March 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Comerica Bank Women's Business Symposium returns to Southern California, helping women in business Learn, Connect, Grow & Celebrate their potential.
• Entering its 17th year, the Comerica Bank Women's Business Symposium brings together women business owners, executives and professionals at all levels from across Southern California to "Power Up Your Potential" through inspiring speakers, connecting them with business leaders and discovering opportunities to help them grow personally and professionally.
• Emceeing the Comerica Bank Women's Business Symposium is celebrity chef, syndicated radio host and cookbook author Jamie Gwen.
• The Comerica Bank Women's Business Symposium is proud to provide women business owners, executives, and professionals the opportunity to Learn, Connect, Grow & Celebrate.

• Advantage Systems is carefully monitoring CDC reports and updates and is hopeful that COVID-19 conditions will continue to improve leading up to the planned in-person event.
• Advantage Systems personnel and industry guest speakers will lead workshops and training sessions on the following, among other topics :
  Our user conference is an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the improved features of our mortgage accounting software while allowing our customers to provide valuable feedback, said Brian Lynch, president of Advantage Systems.
• This year, the AMB User conference emphasizes user input.
• Founded in 1986, Irvine, Calif.-based Advantage Systems is a provider of accounting and contract management tools for the mortgage and real estate industries.

• Octane's 3rd annual Aesthetics Tech Summit (the "Summit") is a two-day event uniting hundreds of leaders in medicine, industry, and the business world to discuss medical aesthetic technologies, as well as unmet clinical needs and new business opportunities.
• "I am honored to speak at the Aesthetics Tech Summit, bringing ELEVAI's skincare expertise to the global stage," said Dr. Plews.
• The Aesthetics Tech Summit will feature ELEVAI along withthree other aesthetics startup companies that are part of the LaunchPad program and are raising a combined total of $50 million.
• The company solves the unmet needs in the regenerative aesthetics space through a combination of cutting-edge science and next-generation consumer applications.