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Virginia Benitez Licuanan
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"How does it feel to turn 91?"
by Virginia Benitez Licuanan - October 26, 2008 - 12:00am
When I celebrated my 91st birthday recently, so many of my friends asked me that question. And I answered, “Wonderful!” And ...
Life & Living
by Virginia Benitez Licuanan - February 11, 2007 - 12:00am
I went to the launching of Chitang Nakpil’s latest book (Myself, Elsewhere, Nakpil Publishing, available at major bookstores). It was very pleasant and...
Lunch with Impy
by Virginia Benitez Licuanan - October 29, 2006 - 12:00am
When mutual friends asked me to join them at lunch at Impy Pilapil’s home, I was glad for an opportunity to meet in person an artist of whom I had heard so much and whose works I had long admired. Of...
Lunch with Impy
by Virginia Benitez Licuanan - October 29, 2006 - 12:00am
When mutual friends asked me to join them at lunch at Impy Pilapil’s home, I was glad for an opportunity to meet in person an artist of whom I had heard so much and whose works I had long admired. Of...
A Letter From The Past
by Virginia Benitez Licuanan - November 27, 2005 - 12:00am
The other day with some time on my hands, I decided to do a task that I had long been postponing–i.e. sorting out the old letters and notes I had stored in a cabinet where they had lain for decades waiting to...
To find Life still good
by Virginia Benitez Licuanan - September 11, 2005 - 12:00am
Like all of her gen-eration, Nena Oreta consi-ders herself a survivor. Born just before the First World War, she looks back with a sense of incredulousness at all the many past years and like all of "the survivors",...
The story of Baguio, the story of my life
by Virginia Benitez Licuanan - May 17, 2005 - 12:00am
I find that when i said that to write about Baguio is almost like writing the story of my life, it is almost literally true
The story of Baguio, the story of mylife
by Virginia Benitez Licuanan - May 15, 2005 - 12:00am
I find that when i said that to write about Baguio is almost like writing the story of my life, it is almost literally true
The story of Baguio, the story of mylife
by Virginia Benitez Licuanan - May 15, 2005 - 12:00am
I find that when i said that to write about Baguio is almost like writing the story of my life, it is almost literally true
Baguio in my mind
by Virginia Benitez Licuanan - May 1, 2005 - 12:00am
When I was asked to write "Something About Baguio" i realized that to write about my memories of Baguio would almost be like writing the story of my life. One of my very earliest childhood memories was...
There is Life After Ninety
by Virginia Benitez Licuanan - July 4, 2004 - 12:00am
It has become almost axiomatic that women live longer than men. That is always the explanation why in a certain age group, from 65 onwards, the number of widows is by far larger than the number of widowers. Certainly...
92 turning 29
by Virginia Benitez Licuanan - March 21, 2004 - 12:00am
When nineteen-year-old Jessie Coa met a young lawyer from the Philippines at a dinner given by a mutual friend in New York City sometime in the early 1930’s, she never dreamed that she would end up living the...
Kissless on Christmas
by Virginia Benitez Licuanan - January 11, 2004 - 12:00am
This is supposed to be my usual what-I-did-last-Christmas letter. But I’m afraid it is going to be what-I-did-not-do-last-Christmas instead because I spent it mostly in bed nursing what was probably be the Mother...
The Houses of the Espiritus
by Virginia Benitez Licuanan - November 2, 2003 - 12:00am
When Marilen Espiritu invited us to spend a Sunday at the O.V. Espiritu beach place in Punta Fuego, I thought it was a birthday or some kind of special celebration. But no–as Marilen explained to me later,...
Learning to Live by Living
by Virginia Benitez Licuanan - October 26, 2003 - 12:00am
When Pacita Jacinto invited me to the launching of Life on the Cusp, a compilation of essays which had been edited and put together by her daughter Mert Loinaz and Rita Ledesma, we both had trouble with the word...
How to own the world
by Virginia Benitez Licuanan - August 31, 2003 - 12:00am
The other day at a family reunion, a cousin of ours was telling with a great deal of laughter a story about the oldest living member of the family, a wonderfully cheerful 97- year-old who seems always so happy inspite...
Back to Pulo
by Virginia Benitez Licuanan - August 3, 2003 - 12:00am
The invitation from my daughter was very tempting. Already in my mind’s eye I could see Puló–the beautiful beach, with white sand fine like powder, the blue waters so clear that one can see...
Ladies First
by Virginia Benitez Licuanan - May 13, 2003 - 12:00am
Thanks to Rosie Osmeña Valencia who invited me, I went to the very interesting launching of the book on Philippine First Ladies produced by Jose Rodriguez and his own "First Lady", the talented painter...
Friendly Fire & Liberation
by Virginia Benitez Licuanan - April 20, 2003 - 12:00am
Thanks for all the fruit. They really served to pick up my appetite because for the past week I did not feel like eating. I had a very bad strep throat and had some bad mouth sores. I do not know what caused them....
Living in the Now
by Virginia Benitez Licuanan - February 23, 2003 - 12:00am
Some years back at a time of deep personal crises, I went on a trip to Thailand. While there, by some kind of osmosis, I absorbed what became my interpretation of the Buddhist philosophy of Life. The basic principle...
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