Mi Vida (My Life) is an intimate account of childhood years in pre-war Manila up to the years of rebuiling and relocation in a new found city in the south--Naga, where she would raise her own family. Here one sees many of the author's transits and transitions in fragmentary essays that are both witty, poignant, touching and engaging. Sparse in her details, but clearly observant, Mi Vida which Maggay started writing as she reached her "waiting stage" is a deeply affecting portrait of a woman that bears witness to the sublime truth that what matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it with grace and gratitude."