I consider these posts the best of this blog because of their serious contents as well as the intelligent comments they engendered:
“The Wars of Inheritance”
The best line: “Php 26 million??? That’s not even her bathroom!!!” ( from a niece about the estate of her aunt Consuelo Alejandra “Chito” Paterno Madrigal-Vazquez-Collantes )
“Susie and the Banshees”
The best line: “All that trouble for just two and a half million dollars??? Peanuts…” ( from the 7 Madrigal-Paterno children about the Gloria Vanderbilt custody case )
“The Families of Old Binondo”
“Conversations about: Simon Flores y de la Rosa, 1839 – 1904, painter”
“The Families of Old Binan, Laguna”
“Japanese Time”
“The Grand Lady of Jaro”
“To the Sugarcane Born: the Lopezes of Iloilo”
“Memorable Manila Houses”
“The Quiapo of Old”
“Mata Pobre”
“The Elegance of Old Spanish Manila”
“Sarrat, Ilocos Norte 1983″
“Life in Paniqui”
“Bacolor, Pampanga before 1991″
“Jorge Jose Leoncio Lichauco de Leon, the aristocratic gentleman of the old world”
“Lola Gely Lopez, the cosmopolitan grande dame”
Happy reading!!!
Toto Gonzalez