My name is Anna Fonté. If the things I write could speak, they’d scream, “Look at me!” They’d twitch and flutter in their fancy hats with jewels and feathers.
I’m no girl. I’m a grown woman, that one sitting on the bench at the park with her notebook. I’m happy to hide under my wide-brimmed hat but the words I write are shameless and flashy.
For more about me, read my personal essay, Awakenings.
I can be reached via the comment section or at anna@girlinthehat.com
YEA!
Thanks, Kathleen. xoox to you.
Anna is in the open! I’m so glad you are doing this. I will read you more.
Jude! Yes, I’m out in the open in the middle of the field. Like Bambi! No, like Bambi’s mother! Love you, miss you. xoox
oooh goody
goody to you too! xoox
So great to look at your site. The photos with the stories — such a wonderful idea. Love, E
Thank you! xoox
Mom! I read the crow article and laughed my head off. You did look like an escaped lunatic. xoxox
p.s Can we eat at KFC tonight ? ( not )
Mom! I read the crow article and laughed my head off. You did look like an escaped lunatic. xoxox
p.s Can we eat at KFC tonight ? ( not )
xoox a very good science faire project, I think. All I want to know is, how do you do that little smiley-face icon thingy? You’ve got to show me.
I am still discovering the computer, Anna, What a great blog! Yes, please use the painting “lemons on Blue” I would like some KFC, but it’s taboo in this house.
Yay! Thank you so much! I will post that piece in a couple of weeks and I’ll try to remember to notify you when it’s up. (That stuff is taboo here, too, but not because it isn’t tasty!
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My, you have a beautiful blog.
Thank you! I guess I have to thank all the very, very nice artists and photographers who generously let me use their images for that.
The art is lovely, but I was also referring to your words. Beautiful.
Thank you! You made my day!!!
Hi,
You have asked me about using this photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/irene2005/3063959852/
I have absolutely no problem with that as long as you link back to it.
Thanks for letting me know.
Best,
Irene
Thank you Irene! I will post that piece in a couple of weeks. I’ll try to remember to let you know. Thanks!
Hi Anna, I subscribed to your blog some weeks back, however this is the first time I read you bio. What an interesting perspective, not unlike my own. As a visual artist, that is “not well known” I find that it is so important to always be a part of the process no matter the exposure. I commend you for writing and writing continiously. It is an internal intuitive love we have for our art.
I will subscribe to your writings and start exploring your work more indepth.
Check out my art blog and website, I think you will perhaps see some similiarities to embrace.
Walter
Hello Walter! So glad to meet you here and look forward to exploring your art. This place is good for connecting with people like you who understand and share my need to write/make art, no matter what. I’ll go check your blog now. Thanks for reading.
Hello Girl in the Hat! I have a little bloggy blog award for you….details here: http://hannahfergesen.com/2011/06/02/yay-for-blog-awards-of-the-irresistably-sweet-variety/
Thanks for being so fun to read!
Wow! Thanks! You made my day! Now I’ll have to figure out what this is…
I love your ABOUT page and I agree. Putting myself out there in the Universe (via the internet) validates the inner workings of my brain. It’s also been the perfect setting to find a posse. I look forward to visiting you and soaking up your writing.
Yes! A posse is so important! Right now, I have more of a posette. A possito? But I’m working on it.
I wanted to comment on the question you asked about dreams. I had a dream I was at my grandson’s baseball game and a little boy rode by, naked, on a tricycle. When I woke up I was so glad because I knew where he came from–out of my book.
My grandson scored the tie breaking run in the championship game in real life. Thanks for visiting my blog. I’m gonna Kindle.
Wow. I’ve never been visited by one of my own characters in a dream. (At least I don’t think so… hmmm….) Yours must be very whole and fully realized. Thank you for the visit!
Anna, a MOST impressive resume…please don’t omit your highly developed sense of humor tho’…i am honored by your enjoyment of my video (“Heist”) over at Averil’s, and i shall be checking in often. oh – and the food at Cochon, Wiliie Mae’s, and Bayona…oooh…continue…
Woah. Mr. Tony Powers? The mannequin-kisser? In the flesh? Or is someone playing a very good joke on me?
What a trippy trip! Thanks for stopping by!
and I love, love, love your video. I had to watch it several times! Bravo!
Nice intro.
Thanks for stopping by my blog. Looking forward to reading more of yours
I have nominated your blog for an award. Please see my post Liebster Blog Award Nomination for full details.
Wow, Sam–You’ve given me another reason to feel grateful on Thanksgiving! (But I see you are in Scotland, so perhaps that makes no sense–) Anyway, THANK YOU for this!!!
I am aware of Thanksgiving but this year for the first time I have been made aware though Emails of Black Friday too – a sort of Happy Spending!
Anyway my pleasure and happy Thanksgiving.
I thankfully have avoided all urges to spend money. Spending has no happy ending. I will try to return the favor of the nod, soon–
Anna, thanks for the sub…but i’m no longer at Baying in the Moon, I’m at Barking in the Dark…so click on there and sub me there. your Delta piece is a tragic hoot…will comment on it shortly. continue…
Okay, I think I got it right in this attempt to subscribe. Look forward to reading your stuff more!
Really love your intro and enjoying what I have read of your blog! Keep it up
Thanks, EssJay– look forward to seeing your next drawings!
you do good “shit” ! … i will certainly check in from time to time.
do you ‘know’ @Mollysdailykiss ( on twitter ) … you are kindred spirits … check her out.
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keep up the good work!
Why thank you– I’ll take that as high praise. I’ll go check her out–
I am liking your sites new look. I tend to come to blogs via a direct link and then navigate post to post. And miss the Home Page in the process. Yours is a great one.
Thanks, Sam– Don’t know what the hell I’m doing, just had a little thought the place could be spruced up and now, 24 hours in front of my computer later, it’s a giant can of wriggling worms. So I’m glad it’s not for nought!
And so many older posts too. I am struggling to keep up with the reading of all the new posts of the blogs I am subscribed too and then there are all these posts published by bloggers before I came to know their blog.
Sticks ostrich head in sand!
Aha! An unforseen perk– I guess it’s true, this home page is more inviting…
Hi Anna,
I really enjoy your blog. I’ve nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award, which I hope you’ll accept and enjoy! The rules can be found on my page:
http://circularrunning.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/i-am-now-an-award-winning-jack-of-all-trades/
best,
gabe
Thank you so much, Gabe. This means a lot, coming from a fabulous writer like you. I will reciprocate soon– I’m loving your blogs.
very beautiful your blog.
Thank you, Antonio. Your paintings are spectacular.
Anna I like your blog’s new look – very clean, neat, bright, simple, light – Good job! We, my son and I, were just thinking about how to change mine so the pictures were bigger. He is here this weekend and we are going to play around a bit with ideas – although it is a big TV sports day today, so I don’t think my blog will get much attention today,
Thanks, Carla– at first it was so tedious and time-consuming I thought I had made a huge mistake but I’m happy now. I’ll have to go see if you expanded your pictures– there’s a game today, too, so perhaps not?
HEY! HELLO! HOWDY! Girl in the Hat!
I’ve nominated you for a Sunshine Blogger award!
THE DEETS: Post the .jpg of the award in a post or somewhere on your blog; mention the person(s) who nominated you; answer the following questions; nominate up to 12 other bloggers and let them know they’ve been nominated!
Favorite Color:
Favorite Animal:
Favorite Number:
Favorite Non-Alcoholic Drink:
Facebook or Twitter:
My Passion:
Getting or Giving Presents:
Favorite Pattern:
Favorite Day of the Week:
Favorite Flower:
Thank you so much, Courtenay! What fun! I just went to peek at your answers but didn’t see them– am I a numbskull?
No! I am really, really slow! I sent out nominations before I finished my post! So, I am the numbskull!
Girl, if i’m “following” you (which i am) how come i haven’t been getting notified of your posts? which is why i’ve not “liked” or “commented” recently. ok, matbe it’s a “never mind” since i just clicked on the “notify me by email” box, which oughta do it. continue…
Ah, Tony, one of life’s great mysteries. (It’s happened to me before, too.) Grateful for your perseverance!
Just what I was looking for, something new to read while traveling! (Awfully hard to find books sometimes, and I am down to my last one. I don’t read Spanish well enough that’s it’s not work!) So thank you for doing this; it’s a great idea. Curling up with my laptop instead of a flesh-n-blood (or paper, I guess) book will take some getting used to, but I will manage!
Welcome! Lots to choose from here, hopefully good travel-reading. Bon voyage!
What a fabulous blog. And I love crows….it was your Gravatar that caught my eye.
Thank you and welcome, Ziggy. I have a thing for crows.
Like what you wrote and like the way! Compliments!!
Thank you, Mademoiselle!
Benvenuti e venire in qualsiasi momento! (I wish I spoke Italian.)
great!!!!!!!! thanks a lot!!!!!!!!
not sure how I lost you but I;m back
I hear you have a new blog coming up.
Hello, Carla! Not sure about that new blog yet. We’ll see….
Anna, Thank you for the follow. I’m enjoying the look and feel of your blog. I’m a fan of crows as well.
Brad
Welcome, Brad. Any fan of crows (and Marilyn) is a friend of mine.
Hope you don’t mind, but, as a great admirer of your work, I have tagged you for the Lucky 7 random editing meme. This is the first chain letter that I took part in since I was a child, but there is no pressure to take part, and there will be no curse coming upon you, oh Lady of Shalott, if you do not choose to take part. I just found it quite an eye-opening exercise (and a bit depressing, as I thought I wrote better than that!). Have a look here and see what you think:
http://findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/lucky-7-random-editing/
All the best, Marina
Marina– What fun! I’d love to play, curses be damned. (Now I just have to figure out which friends are working on novels….) (Also, as I am on vacation in Kauai at the moment (!!!) please chalk up any delays in my response to pure sun-and-water-addled incapacity.)
Thank you, Marina!
Anna
No worries, there’s no time limit on it! And I’ve cheated a little, by sending it on to a few poets – they are bound to be much better than pedestrian novelists like me! Enjoy your vacation! Hard work, but someone’s got to do it!
your it http://jensinewall.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/apparently-im-it-10-2/
And now an award just for you and a few others
http://jensinewall.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/i-am-bidextrous/
Found you via AverillDean’s blog….enjoying your stuff a lot. I’ll go figure out how to sign up and get new posts via email….
I’m an intuitive to writers, and a novelist.
Welcome. Any friend of Averil’s is a friend of mine, To subscribe via email, click the link at the bottom right of this page. What precisely is an “intuitive to writers”?
The word that used to be used was “psychic.” I’m offering free readings to writers.
I look forward to reading your novel….!
you’ve been passionately awarded
http://jensinewall.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/passionatly-pleased/
Oh, maaan. That’s so nice! Thanks for this, Jensine! I think I already owe you something from previous tags. (Hangs head in shame.) I will have to think of some way to thank you.
Just keep blogging
Just so you’ll know, I’ve nominated you for the Kreativ Blogger Award! http://goodoldgirl.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/its-not-nepotism/
I did it because your blog is not only creative, it’s wonderous!
PS: Love the hat!
Congratulations to you on your award and much thanks for passing it along to me! Being in such good company gets me all puffed-up and proud. Thank you kindly!