My name is Kahea and I'm a practical yet somewhat restless 27-year-old. I grew up in rivers and cane fields on the Big Island of Hawaii, went to college and fell in love with Seattle, and now find myself living in the Bay Area with boyfriend and dog. I recently graduated from law school (which was Plan A) and then promptly decided that being a lawyer just wasn't for me (that's the sound of Plan A being whole-heartedly abandoned). I'm currently trying to figure out what my next steps are going to be and am simultaneously exhilarated and terrified at all of life's possibilities.
You can also check out
101 Things About Me and my
Life List for just about everything you could ever hope to know about me and my life.
I started this blog in the summer of 2007. At the time, I was looking for a non-email way to keep in touch with some friends while they were off traipsing around the world for three months and I was not. I've also always loved writing and, though I'd yet to allow a single solitary person to read anything I wrote, I was hoping to move in that direction. A blog seemed like a good way to marry and satisfy both needs for a while. As soon as I published my first post, it was love. And when that first fateful summer ended, "Past & Prologue" kept going.
I blog about a number of things: my non-profit feels-like-a-corporate job, the many goals I seem to come up with almost on a weekly basis, books, clothes, music, writing, bad movies I can't get enough of. I've also met some great friends through the blogosphere who have inspired several on-going topics, including
Blogging Through My Debt (which is about my struggle to climb out of the hole and became financially responsible) and
A Healthy Ambition (about losing weight and getting in shape). But mostly I blog about my life and my sometimes funny, sometimes futile attempts to figure it out.
"Past & Prologue" is a deviation on Shakespeare's famous line from The Tempest, which is my favorite of his plays. It's a nice reminder that our experiences rarely occur in a vacuum, and while they are both shaped by all that came before and are forever setting the scene for the things that come next, the future really is whatever we make it. I blog about that a lot too.
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