It’s been a long week.
Two days ago, I was working late and I had a call from my Aunt Kathy, my dad’s oldest sister in the mainland. A long-distance call during the middle of the day. I was hesitant to pick up.
My grandpa passed away this past Wednesday morning in his sleep. He was my...
Monthly Archives: January 2010

I’m a Big Island girl. You can take the girl off the Big Island but you can’t make her throw away her high school soccer shorts and long-sleeve flannel shirts. It just ain’t never going happen. With the insane prices of airline tickets and the demise of the unloved Super-ferry, I manage to visit home...

December was chock full of holiday fun but it also marked other momentous events. I met Chrystie when we were both in the Master’s Program in Cell and Molecular Biology at University of Hawaii-Manoa. We both obtained our Master’s Degree but she continued on in her graduate studies in the PhD Program while I joined...

