You've just entered my homepage. This is the main page. I have several sections, including a blog, and you can reach them all from here. I'm still in the process of building this site up. When it gets bigger I will be breaking this main page up into even more sections. Think of this page as an outline, you can click links to get the details. I like to describe things in detail, and one page doesn't seem like enough! Come back for regular updates, and don't forget that you can read about my daily life in my blog. I won't be updating it daily, but it will have all the latest news.

Without further delay, here's about me! I'm a 19 year old guy living in California and Hawaii, USA. I spend summers and winter vacation in Hawaii, and the rest of the year in California. To read more about this, and how it effects my life, read my homes and travels page. I was born on November 3, 1982, in San Francisco. I was an orphan at birth, you can read that story here. I spent the first fourteen years of my life in the foster care system. I was almost adopted once, but the couple finally got pregnant and after six months of living with them and being very close to being adopted, they decided not to do it. All of this had a major effect on my life, which you will see as you read this page. By the time I was a teenager I had lived in more than a dozen homes. Foster homes, most of them, are not a good place to grow up. I really can't imagine any child enjoying being shuffled from one stranger's home to another. When I was sixteen I was found by an uncle. This was a big change and I have a page devoted to that story. By this time I was too used to doing things my own way, and I did not change my ways just because a relative suddenly showed up to claim me. I met a girl, and we started spending all our time together. She had a baby girl. We even started telling everyone that the baby was mine. I thought of her as mine. After two years of this though, we were going to break up. We weren't really right for each other, and my life was taking off in a different direction. For the first time I was thinking about things like college and getting my life together. I was eighteen, it was about time. Just then, just before we could break up official, we found out that she was pregnant. And it was my baby for real this time. My girlfriend and I stayed together instead of breaking up. We even started getting along better. A little pressure can be a good thing, we were willing to work out the problems in our relationship instead of calling it quits.

On September 2, 2001 my son Kai Sloan was born. He weigned 6 pounds 1 ounce. My girlfriend had experienced severe complications before the delivery. Her blood pressure dropped and dropped as they tried to deliver the baby. I was holding her hand one minute and the next minute they were rushing her out of the room to emergency surgery. She had a C-section and was unconscious for over 48 hours afterwards. She never really got better. She had several blood transfusions, and an operation to remove clots. She died four weeks after Kai's birth, on September 29. That's not something you expect to happen. I always thought that labor and birth had become so safe in the USA than no normal mother died during childbirth anymore. That's wrong. Thousands of women die every year while delivering babies. My girlfriend had a number of risk factors, her age being one, a history of hypertension being another, and possibly the most important one being the lack of prenatal care she received. She had put off going to the doctor until the fifth month of pregnancy, she refused to have an ultrasound on the notion that it might be harmful to the baby (an article she read claimed that), and she didn't let her doctor know about problems she was having, like fainting spells and dizziness. All of these were symptoms that she should not have ignored. I think one of the reasons younger mothers are at risk is they simply don't get the right medical care, or delay going to a doctor until very late in the pregnancy. I was told that I was lucky that the baby was healthy. After all of this, things were really crazy, which you can read about in more detail.

I've created a special page, for my daughter Lucy Michelle and my son Kai Sloan. There you can read about their births in more detail, as well as get more current information about each of them. They grow so fast I don't know if these pages can really be kept updated! I will be using the weblog a lot to record milestones in the future. My daughter is three years old now, her birthday was on October 16. Being a parent of two kids is great. Most of the time. Having an older toddler and a baby makes it difficult to get everything done. They need different things. Later on, when Kai's older, that won't be a problem.

Althought I started out without a family at all, it would seen that I have one now. My uncle is busy with his business, so he is rarely around. I like being left alone with my kids, parenting's not easy with someone looking over your shoulder. That's bound to happen when you're a young parent. Moving from California to Hawaii and back again is just part of life for us. We travel by boat, which takes quite some time. When my girlfriend was alive I stayed in California the summer when she was expecting Kai. This winter is the first time that my daughter and son will be traveling with me, their first time in Hawaii.

When in California I'm a full time student in college. I started college before Kai came into the picture, in Spring of 2001. I finished that term with a 4.0 GPA, taking six classes. This fall I started another six classes. I will be glad to take a little break now for winter vacation. Even though it's not long, it des help. All this studying is hard! I'm determined to stay on track with college. Right now I'm at a community college, and after two years, if I stay on track, I will be able to transfer to a four year college. At this time I don't know what I want to do. Maybe something with computers. Maybe something high-tech. I have time to decide because right now I'm simply working toward a deneral degree.

One of my newest hobbies is going online. Believe it or not, I went online for the first time in the summer of 2001! Since then I feel like I've become addicted. Good thing two kids keep me from sitting in front of the computer for hours! My other hobbies are all kinds of beach sports, volleyball, and carving things out of wood. I've become especially good at carving turtles, fish, seahorses, and bears. I found this hobby in art class at college. I'm terrible at drawing, so I took a wood craft class instead to meet the art requirement.

Believe it or not I have run out of things to say here. This page is long enough as it is, so maybe that's a good thing. There will be updates of course, so it is likely to get longer. I hope you enjoyed reading this and will stop by again! Don't forget to sign the guestbook or email me.

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