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Dorothy Delgado Novicio
Dorothy Delgado Novicio
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Of grace and gratitude
by Dorothy Delgado Novicio - December 17, 2024 - 12:00am
Days leading to Thanksgiving and the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, I was exploring Portugal and paid homage to Our Lady of Fatima. To be Catholic is to be Marian. But I don’t think reverence to Our Lady...
Visits through historic homes
by Dorothy Delgado Novicio - December 1, 2024 - 12:00am
As the last few auburn trees in our neighborhood park shed their leaves to give way to winter, we received an invitation from a family friend to meet up at Tarrytown, north of New York City.
Group of Friends in the UN
by Dorothy Delgado Novicio - November 19, 2024 - 12:00am
On the 79th founding anniversary of the United Nations last October, I was at the headquarters touring my sister around.
Two races
by Dorothy Delgado Novicio - November 12, 2024 - 12:00am
I looked up the definitions of “spectator, participant and admirer.” In the upshot of two races I had witnessed here in New York, I’m trying to make sense of how I stand and feel about these recent...
Museum moments
by Dorothy Delgado Novicio - October 20, 2024 - 12:00am
“Why not pursue wonder?” suggests a story I once read. A healthy sense of curiosity, the author argues, fosters tolerance, inspires creativity, builds resilience and makes us more “desirous of studying...
Our voice in the UN
by Dorothy Delgado Novicio - October 5, 2024 - 12:00am
Every September marks what is known as the high-level week of the United Nations General Assembly.
My own influencers
by Dorothy Delgado Novicio - September 22, 2024 - 12:00am
Coming home means revisiting beloved and familiar places. It also means encountering new ones and in the process connecting the essence of those people that make such places exceptional, inspiring and cherished...
Seven million friends
by Dorothy Delgado Novicio - September 8, 2024 - 12:00am
My “seven million friends” is a hyperbolic reference my daughter coined while I was working around my schedule for possible get-togethers with friends in between the primary purpose for my homecomin...
Remembrances of our heroes
by Dorothy Delgado Novicio - August 25, 2024 - 12:00am
Around this time last year, my Spanish friend and I traveled to what she thought was the perfect penultimate leg of my 12-day, multi-city trip to Spain. Madrid, she suggested, is where I could relive fragments from...
Where history and philanthropy meet
by Dorothy Delgado Novicio - August 11, 2024 - 12:00am
It is a place of worship for the faithful of the Episcopal tradition.
Homecoming musings
by Dorothy Delgado Novicio - July 28, 2024 - 12:00am
It’s the longest time I haven’t gone home since we left for a new foreign assignment.
Museums matter
by Dorothy Delgado Novicio - June 30, 2024 - 12:00am
It was an unexpected compliment, a note of gratitude. While exploring New York’s museums and galleries in nearby states, my children, now young adults, thanked me for always bringing them to these places of...
Foremost a father
by Dorothy Delgado Novicio - June 16, 2024 - 12:00am
He was town mayor pre social media age.
In praise of Pacita Abad
by Dorothy Delgado Novicio - June 2, 2024 - 12:00am
Once I had a lingering encounter with a painting at the home of Ambassador Sonia Cataumber Brady.
Our nomadic life
by Dorothy Delgado Novicio - May 19, 2024 - 12:00am
Every Tuesday, our virtual, pre-prayer conversations with my multi-cultural friends revolve around the weather, faith, home or our wanderings.
My two mothers
by Dorothy Delgado Novicio - May 5, 2024 - 12:00am
In our culture, it’s not unusual to regard someone as our own mother other than the woman who bore us in her womb.
Walking and commuting
by Dorothy Delgado Novicio - April 21, 2024 - 12:00am
Walking and commuting are essential parts of our New York existence.
Becoming Filipino again
by Dorothy Delgado Novicio - April 7, 2024 - 12:00am
Every day between 4:00 and 4:30 p.m. a distinct air of anticipation fills the ground floor lobby of the Philippine Consulate General in New York.
Lent and a unifying faith
by Dorothy Delgado Novicio - March 24, 2024 - 12:00am
The value and meaning of Lent has, over time, evolved from my perspective as a child growing up in a Catholic household, to the lens of an itinerant who has lived in countries where religion is hardly spoken of or...
Women in the shadows
by Dorothy Delgado Novicio - March 10, 2024 - 12:00am
I am never lacking of women to honor or draw inspiration from every time we celebrate International Women’s Day.
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