Me and Kaleonani	Our daughters Kalikolehua, Kaleonani, and Kawehionalani
Me at the London Eye	My mom and me at the Eiffel Tower

Courses I teach:

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

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

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

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

• My family

• Writing: non-fiction topics, Hawaiian stories

• Native Hawaiian issues

• Collecting: Images of Our Lady of Guadalupe, old photos (especially of groups on church steps), Hawaiiana, Depression glassware

• Creative stuff: jewelry making, baking, gardening, blogging

• Languages and linguistics, especially Hawaiian Creole English (pidgin). I speak Spanish pretty fluently and Hawaiian not as fluently as I should

• Music: all kinds. I love Hawaiian music most of all, but I also like classic rock (Beatles! Led Zeppelin! Jimi!), reggaeton, Egyptian singer Natacha Atlas, and Mexican singer Julieta Venega

• Foreign films: Korean historical dramas (anything starring Song Il-Guk, Ji Jin Hee or Bae Soo Bin), Japanese (anything with Ueno Juri), Bollywood movies (anything with Shah Ruhk Khan or Ashwarya Rai), Chinese, Middle Eastern, and Spanish language movies

I am a breast cancer survivor, so I've pretty much been to hell and back. Please email me if you need to talk to someone who knows what you're going through.