Mahalo to a high school debater who inspired me…
In 1978 I was in my junior year at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa (UH). While college is a normal transition for many Americans, I got there by a frightening twist of fate, which left me seriously injured and almost dead. I was always a terrible student in school. I dropped out when I was 15, had been on my own since I was 14, and was the single parent to a beautiful baby…