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World War Two Heroes Cebu Philippines

February 15, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

Please read my blogs on World War Two Heroes of Cebu, Philippines World War Two Heroes of Cebu Philippines Alfonso Escaño Corominas, Sr. https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2022/02/world-war-two-hero-alfonso-escano.html Dr. Colonel Emilio Veloso Osmeña https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2022/02/world-war-two-in-cebu-dr-col-emilio.html   Conrado Colina … [Read more...] about World War Two Heroes Cebu Philippines

Filed Under: Nonfiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: Pacific War, World War II, World War Two, WWII

Remembering Dr. Herbert Zipper #WorldWarTwo survivor

January 18, 2022 by admin Leave a Comment

    In around 1992 I met an elderly gentleman Dr. Herbert Zipper, who had been a Jewish composer-conductor in Germany in the 1930s when Hitler was chancellor. Zipper was picked up and sent to Dachau where he organized an orchestra that gave clandestine concerts from an abandoned latrine. He was released from Buchenwald and he went to Manila to reunite and marry the love of his life Trudl … [Read more...] about Remembering Dr. Herbert Zipper #WorldWarTwo survivor

Filed Under: Nonfiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: Holocaust, World War II, World War Two, WWII

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

Philippine Edition of Cecilia Brainard’s War Novel at #CebuLitFest

June 8, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

When the Rainbow Goddess Cover

PHILIPPINE EDITION OF CECILIA BRAINARD’S WAR NOVEL AT THE #CEBULITFEST The Philippine edition of Cecilia Manguerra Brainard’s novel, When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, will be released by the University of Santo Tomas Publishing House. The author, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, will be at the Cebu Literary Festival (CebuLitFest) on June 29 and 30, 2019, Ayala Center, Cebu, Philippines, to celebrate … [Read more...] about Philippine Edition of Cecilia Brainard’s War Novel at #CebuLitFest

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: book, Cebu, literature, Mindanao, novel, Pacific War, Philippines, World War II, World War Two, 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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