WELCOME

Thanks for subscribing to the blog. The blog begins on June 21 with the first entry into my mother's diary, two weeks into her senior year of high school. You can read a little bit more about my mother, the blog and why I decided to write it by clicking Jane's Blog in the right side bar. When my Dad moved to senior living in the fall of 2010 and we emptied the home where he and our mother lived beginning in 1973, I inherited my mother's diaries that span the period from her senior year in high school (1928) until she married (1937). She also kept a scrap book and from time to time I'll also include images from that scrap book that relate to the stories in the diaries.

I hope to post daily. The entries aren't long (two paragraphs at most) and should be fun. In many ways she reads like a typical teenager. But her life in the Philippines is unfamiliar to most of us and these diary entries give us a chance to view the events of her life and the period through a different lens. I invite your comments. If you know more to the story, please add, especially my brother and sisters and our cousins who grew up on stories of Manila. If you think of others from the extended family you think would enjoy the blog, send me their email address and I'll add them.

The blog begins Tuesday. I hope you enjoy.