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28th Annual Black Doll Show @ William Grant Still...
For the peeps that missed the kokeshi doll show at the Japanese American National Museum, I will once again be exhibiting  5 of my jumbo KROKESHI dolls at the 28th Annual Black Doll Exhibit!!! I’ve Got a Story to Tell December 5 2009- February 27, 2010 History: The Black doll show was inspired by a doll test conducted by Mamie and Kenneth Clark. The tests concluded that due to social...
Nov 24th
“Parenthood is meaningless unless you, the parent, learn & grow the most.”
– A wise elder I listened to the other day
Nov 14th
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My Cat Komachi
A very sad day; one of my cats, KOMACHI, just passed away.  Such incident as this, seems to always put me into a daze and a sort of contemplative reality check.  This time, it made me recall a lecture I heard at a Buddhist seminary about the Truth of Suffering.  This lecture was not only about the famous FOUR SUFFERINGS which states that as long as one is alive, we will suffer birth, old age,...
Nov 5th
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Nov 3rd
Thankful today for:  Being able to leave my job in order to raise my daughter.
Nov 3rd
October 2009
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Eka Loa Journal
After my daughter’s birth in July, I had started a visual journal…bunch of drawings to remember what I was thinking about and/or what was happening at that time. This is the title page.  I will continue to post additional pages….stay tooned!!!
Oct 30th
Oct 30th
ListenOne of my favorite love songs.  The lyrics is very...
Oct 30th
Emi M. Interview →
 Thanks to the Japanese Anerican National Museum exhibit of six of my jumbo krokeshi dolls, I got lucky & got a write up on LAist.  Thank you Julie W!!!
Oct 30th
http://www.notcot.org/post/25624/ →
The same article also got published on NOTCOT…Yay!
Oct 30th
THE Month
I need to go back a bit…to July 2009.  Besides the annual 4th of July fireworks, there were two other spectacular fireworks going off in my world.  1) The exhibition of six of my jumbo 4ft crocheted KROKESHI dolls at the Japanese American National Museum in Downtown, Los Angeles & 2) The birth of my first ever baby girl!  I was a huge cluster of emotions, from pure joy to nervous...
Oct 30th
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Ready, Start, Blog!...Bam.
So I started a blog.!  Being the late bloomer that I am, I’ve just recently decided to start one.  So what do I write about?…..Is it like…”BLOG BLOG BLOG, BLAH BLAH BLAH”…..Yeah, I think so.  I’ll just entertain myself and in the process, tickle some souls. 
Oct 29th