My voice was shot. I had cheered on my youngest daughter Sabrina in her last state track event, the 800 meter. I whooped and hollered as she passed six people to get to her 8th place finish. And now it was over. Drew and I walked her down to her […]
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I saw the house from the highway. My husband, two daughters and I were on our way to St. George to attend a banquet where Sabrina was going to be honored along with four other scholarship recipients. The wind was brisk, and I hurried over a cattle guard to get […]
Taking my daughter’s senior pictures
7/1/07 – Cuyo, for the Crowd-Shy Follow
Filipinas Magazine – Features
2/1/08 – A Family History in Cuyo Follow
Filipinas Magazine – Essays
photo from Wikipedia This essay originally appeared in Filipinas Magazine, Feb. 2008 by Jewel Punzalan Allen I watched as the passenger batil, the 50-meter, wood-hull MV Catalyn-D, detached itself from the dock at Cuyo in the darkness of dawn. The island was waking up, lights from huts marking the outline […]