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Portrait of Filomena Alesna Cuenco by Cecilia Brainard

August 5, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

I made this portrait of my maternal grandmother, Filomena Alesna Cuenco, in prisma color and pastel, size 9 x 12. Filomena Alesna Cuenco from Carcar; born May 1, 1882, parents: Evaristo Barcenilla Alesna and Cresencia Ynosencia Sanchez Villarosa; parents died when she was young and she and her 2 sisters were raised by 2 old maid aunts; her older sister Placida married Mateo Noel; her younger … [Read more...] about Portrait of Filomena Alesna Cuenco by Cecilia Brainard

Filed Under: Nonfiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: Art, Cebu, Cuenco Famiy, Filipina, Filipino Women portraits, Philippines

Filipinos #CopingWithCovid — Linda Ty-Casper, Massachusetts USA

June 18, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

  The following is part of my series, Filipinos Coping with Covid. Linda Ty-Casper is a multi-award Filipina novelist noted for her historical fiction set in the Philippines. She is the author of over 16 books and has been awarded the SEA WRITE Award, Rockefeller (Bellagio), Radcliffe Fellowship, among others. Responding to my interview questions, Linda describes life for her in … [Read more...] about Filipinos #CopingWithCovid — Linda Ty-Casper, Massachusetts USA

Filed Under: Nonfiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: #CopignwithCovid, Coronavirus, Covid 19, Filipina, literature, novelis, pandemica, Philippine

Honoring Lina Espina Moore, Fiction Writer from Cebu, Philippines

February 15, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

One of Cebu's noted fiction writers was Lina Espina Moore (1919-2000). I met Lina in my publisher's (Gloria Rodriguez) office when I was an emerging writer and she was an established one. She greeted me and my mother (whom she knew) warmly, and Lina went on to mentor me. When I met her she was already a widow but she enjoyed talking about her married days with Kip Moore when they lived up in Mr. … [Read more...] about Honoring Lina Espina Moore, Fiction Writer from Cebu, Philippines

Filed Under: Nonfiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: author, Cebu, Cebuana, Filipina, literature, novelist, Visayan, writer

Antique Pictures Lourdes Cuenco of Cebu Philippines

December 26, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

Perhaps because I've always been interested in family genealogy, relatives and friends have been forwarding old family pictures to me.  Many pictures were damaged or lost in the Philippines during World War Two, and therefore old family pictures are rare. I'm featuring pictures of my aunt, Lourdes Cuenco, oldest sister of my mother Concepcion Cuenco.  Lourdes remained unmarried as was her … [Read more...] about Antique Pictures Lourdes Cuenco of Cebu Philippines

Filed Under: Nonfiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: antique photos, Cebu, Cuenco family, Filipina, Philippines, politics, society

Welcome!

I am a daugh­ter of the Philip­pines and an adopt­ed daugh­ter of Amer­i­ca. I have also trav­eled to many places so I am also a daugh­ter of the Earth. My expe­ri­ences have found their way into my sto­ries, which try to depict char­ac­ters caught in impor­tant moments in their lives, sit­u­a­tions that force them to act, make deci­sions, change. I try to see the world from my own point of view, not the dom­i­nant West­ern one, thus my inter­est in his­to­ry, cul­ture, and set­ting. But my char­ac­ters car­ry my sto­ries; they are the most impor­tant in my sto­ry-telling. I have to dive deep into them to under­stand their human­i­ty – their good­ness as well as their bad­ness, their beau­ty as well as their ugli­ness. Just like us. Just like each of us. I need to know where they came from, where they are now, so I under­stand where they are going. Just like us.

Please read my full biog­ra­phy here

 

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