TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: My Baby Pictures Discovered! ~ Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Monday, August 1, 2011

My Baby Pictures Discovered! ~ Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

I found these baby pictures, old black and white photos. One is in really bad shape. The other one, I was able to Photoshop and this is the first time I've seen a picture of myself as a baby! There are a couple more old photos when I was older, with my siblings.

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Top photo - this photo is virtually ruined
Second to top - l-r: my oldest sister Vicky carrying me, my sister Ana, and brother Junior;
Third to top - l-r: Swimming in Liloan Beach, with a WWII landing craft behind us, Junior, Ana, me;
Fourth from top - l-r: Christmas circa 1956, Ana, Junior, me

tags: pictures, photographs, Cecilia Brainard, Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, Cebu, history

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.