Philippines | Donna Miscolta

The 10th birthday of When the de la Cruz Family Danced, my 68th birthday, and other numbers

By Donna Miscolta | June 21, 2021 |

Today is my birthday and I’m 68 years old. Ten years ago today, I celebrated the publication of my first book When the de la Cruz Family Danced.* My father, to whom the book was dedicated, never got to read it. He had been dead eighteen years. He died the year I turned forty when…

Someday I will write about the Philippines

By Donna Miscolta | December 10, 2017 |

I recently spent eight days in the Philippines. That’s eight days out of 64 years of my life. I’ve made a list of over a dozen topics I want to write about. Is it arrogantly absurd that the topics number more than the days I was there? How do I swoop in and out of…

A past-due pilgrimage

By Donna Miscolta | September 23, 2017 |

I’m going to the Philippines in November for the first time. It’s past time. The scenes in my first book When the de la Cruz Family Danced that were set in the Philippines were wholly imagined. They could’ve been based on first-hand experience if four decades ago I’d chosen differently When I finished college, my…