Girl Fest Honolulu 2007

November, 2007: Girl Fest rocked. Here are but two of the talented artists who totally rocked Anna Banana's and NextDoor: Emily Wells and Imani. Sweet!

Soul on Ice

Six months later... Guess I HAVE been working on that dissertation thing! Well since my last post I've accomplished a few things, namely, I'm now ABD. For those of you who have nothing to do with academia (i.e. the sane), that means All But Dissertation. Yes, I successfully defended my proposal last December and am forging on! This means the blogging was put on hold for a bit, but now I intend to catch you up on my past six months, as not all of it consisted of grad school anxieties (although that's a healthy chunk of the everyday). Let's start where I left off - on my way back from a conference in Little Rock Arkansas, I had an overnight lay-over in Los Angeles, so my pop picked me up from the airport and the parental units just happened to be babysitting my cute nephew, Soul Kaya Mecenas. I wanted to tuck him into my backpack the next morning on my way back to Honolulu, but we'll wait til the little guy can jump into some waves and make a shaka with his hand!