R.I.P, BEATRIZ TILAN TABIOS (1930-2012)

Mom died peacefully and surrounded by much love in the Philippines.  I'm on my way there--will be offline through Nov. 24, 2012. 

I love you, Mom: You were not the goose who laid the golden egg.  You were the golden egg.

Mom was a first-time author at age 82.  Information about her book, DAWAC & Other Memoir-Narratives is HERE. 

FROM HER BIO IN DAWAC:

Beatriz Tilan Tabios, 82-years-old, received her B.A. with English as her major from the Silliman University in Dumaguete, Philippines. She developed her love for poetry as a sixth-grader reading Homer, William Shakespeare, John Keats, Alexander Pope, William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge while trying to survive World War II. She would further develop her appreciation for literature as a college student instructed by poet Edith Tiempo, the first woman to receive the title of National Artist for Literature in the Philippines. Critic and fictionist Dr. Edilberto Tiempo, then the head of Sillliman University’s English Department, encouraged Mrs. Tabios to continue her study of English and American literature. As a result, Mrs. Tabios wrote her Master of Arts thesis, one of the earliest investigations, regarding Filipino literature, of “(The Use of) Local Color in Short Stories in English.” Later, Mrs. Tabios taught English literature at Dagupan College (now University of Pangasinan) and University of Baguio, before becoming a teacher at Brent School, a boarding school initially built for children from U.S.-American military, missionary and gold-mining families stationed in the Far East.