Courses I teach:

• At Leeward CC: Eng 100 Composition 1, Eng 209W Business Writing/Writing Intensive, Ling 102W Introduction to Human Language (Linguistics)/Writing Intensive, Span 101 Beginning Spanish

• At Hawai'i Pacific University: Com 3400 Professional Writing, Com 3420 Business Writing

Things I'm Interested in (outside of teaching):

• My family: daughters (Kalikolehua, Kawehionalani, and Kaleonani); husband (Tim)
• Music: all kinds. Lately I've been listening a lot to Natacha Atlas, an Egyptian singer who lives in France. I grew up listening to the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix.
• Native Hawaiian issues
• Collecting: Images of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Hawaiian kitsch from the 1930's to 1970's, Depression glassware
• Languages and linguistics, especially Hawaiian Creole English (pidgin). I speak Spanish pretty fluently and Hawaiian not-so fluently.
• Travel (especially to see religious icons)
• Foreign films: Korean costumed dramas (like Age of Warriors and anything starring Song Il-Guk), Bollywood movies (especially starring Shah Ruhk Khan or Ashwarya Rai), Chinese (Gong Li is my favorite actress), Japanese, Middle Eastern, Spanish language movies

My Education:

• Kamehameha Schools, Honolulu, Hawai'i, high school diploma

• University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA. B.A. and M.A.

• UCLA and University of Hawai'i, graduate coursework and projects in linguistics

Tim, Aunty Mary, dad, mom, Kaliko, Kawehi, me, and Kaleo at Kaliko's graduation from Stanford University June 2005. Kaliko graduated from UCLA School of Law in May 2008.	Kaliko, me and Kawehi. Kawehi graduated from the University of Nevada - Las Vegas in December 2008.
Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy.	Me, our youngest Kaleo, and Tim. We are very blessed indeed.