TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Huffington Post: Mother's Day "Death of a Carnival Queen" #women, #Philippines

Monday, May 9, 2016

Huffington Post: Mother's Day "Death of a Carnival Queen" #women, #Philippines

Huffington Post reprinted my article on my mother, "Death of a Carnival Queen." I hope you enjoy it and please don't forget to "Like" the article on Huffington --- top right, underneath the Title:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cecilia-brainard/mothers-day-death-of-a-ca_b_9863160.html

Here are pictures of my mother that are included in the article.

Here are two sites about Cebu Carnival Queens, updated by Cecilia Brainard in 2022:

https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2022/01/cebu-carnival-and-other-queens.html

https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2022/01/cebu-carnival-queens-philippines-from.html

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Comments posted in Huffington Post:

Perla Daly ·

Life Coach and Publisher at Omehra Sigahne

Thanks for sharing your mom's story, Cecilia!

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1May 9, 2016 4:01pm

Susan Evangelista ·

UP Diliman

Beautiful, Cecilia! Thanks for this!!

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1May 11, 2016 1:08am

Teresa Concepcion ·

Toronto, Ontario

Dear Cecilia:

What a joy to read the story of your mother. Your writing exquisitely and lovingly evoked the 30's period in your mother's life. I love the simplicity, the economy, the rhythm, and the cadence of the telling of her story. It is comfort food for the soul.

I lost my mother two years ago. She was ninety five years old. Like your mother she had her time in the sun. And like your mother, she lost her husband early in their marriage, leaving 7 young children in her care.

Somehow, your story reminded me that my own mother had a life before she became "the" mother.

Thank you for sharing the lovely tribute to your mother....See More

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1May 9, 2016 4:21pm

Nenutzka Villamar ·

Baltimore, Maryland

I'm pleased to be reading articles regarding Filipino culture. Filipinos comprise the largest immigrant population in California. Sadly when I was growing up in California, there was nothing about my culture represented in the media. I'm happy that has changed.

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1May 9, 2016 3:54pm

Swapna Pawar

Once again, a lovely article! Your mother was beautiful (inside and out) and so are you smile emoticon

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1May 10, 2016 2:09pm

Read also

The Kindness of the French, by Cecilia Brainard, in Huffington Post
Cebu Philippines, Politics: Cebu's Cuenco Family in 1932
Cebu, Philippine: The Old Families of Colon Street
Life in Parian Now, by Cecilia Brainard
Lola Remedios and Her Sayas

Tags: women, mothers, mother and daughters, family, Philippines, Cebu, Visayas, Carnival Queen, karnabal, Filipino, International, beauty queens

This is all for now,
Cecilia

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

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.