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Travel Challenge — Vietnam

July 3, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

My own Travel challenge - to post a favorite travel photo daily, to send out something beautiful to this world. This was taken in Vietnam. Tags: #travel #Travelpictures #Vietnam #Asia #photographs #photos … [Read more...] about Travel Challenge — Vietnam

Filed Under: Nonfiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: photographs, pictures, travel, Vietnam

Travel Challenge — Long Neck Karen, Inle Lake Burma

July 2, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

My own Travel challenge - to post a favorite travel photo daily, to send out something beautiful to this world. (I don't know how PC this picture is, but the Long Neck Karen women did not mind being the attraction in a shop in Inle Lake, Burma.) Tags: #travel #photos #burma #myamar #longneckkaren #karen #photographs … [Read more...] about Travel Challenge — Long Neck Karen, Inle Lake Burma

Filed Under: Nonfiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: Burma, Myanmar, photographs, travel

Travel Challenge — Burma Photograph

July 1, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

My own Travel challenge - to post a favorite travel photo daily, to send out something beautiful to this world. I took this photo in Burma. I should add that this photo was used in an ad by a nonprofit:     Tags: #travel #Burma #Myanmar #flowermarket #photographs #photos … [Read more...] about Travel Challenge — Burma Photograph

Filed Under: Nonfiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: photographs, photos, pictures, travel

Antique Girl Photo: Concepcion Cuenco of Cebu

December 13, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

The girl in the middle is my mother, Concepcion Cuenco. This photo was taken circa 1920.I love the stockings, hat, bow, flowers, the flapper-style dresses, and that fuzzy nude in the background. I'm assuming the girls beside her are her sisters: Lourdes Cuenco the bigger girl, and Consuelo Cuenco the little one. They were children of the politician Mariano Jesus Cuenco and Filomena Alesna from … [Read more...] about Antique Girl Photo: Concepcion Cuenco of Cebu

Filed Under: Nonfiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: antique, Cebu, photographs, vintage

Cecilia Brainard Childhood Pictures

September 11, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

I'm sharing two childhood pictures that I recently cleaned up. The first one is the only surviving picture of me as an infant.  This shows my oldest sister Vicky carrying me, my sister Ana, and my brother Jess or Junior.  This photo was taken in our temporary home in Talisay, Cebu. We stayed there for a few years after World War II, while my parents built our home in Cebu City behind the … [Read more...] about Cecilia Brainard Childhood Pictures

Filed Under: Nonfiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: Cebu, childhood, Philippines, photographs, photos, pictures, WWII

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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