Time out for a couple of weeks from politics, and just in time, because I'm getting really caught up in it - constantly reading CNN blogs and visiting YouTube for politicals news/gossip what-not. Yesterday read that Cindy McCain accused the Obama camp of running the dirtiest campaign. Perhaps she was referring to all the Keating 5 bad press for her husband that re-surfaced AFTER Sarah Palin accused Obama of associating with Ayres. Meanwhile Michelle Obama gave a classy interview wherein she said she wasn't angry that Obama had been referred to as "that man" by McCain, and remained calm in explaining the Ayres matter - she said people don't want to hear about all of this but want to hear about solutions to our big economic problems, and that it's just politics. Class act!
I don't know if I'll have internet access for the next couple of weeks and if not here's a blessing for you and your loved ones, dear readers:
May the road rise up to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains all soft upon your fields,
And until we meet again
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
TIME OUT FROM POLITICS FOR ME!
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books..
Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized.
Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines.
She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.
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