Kit Jeffreys:  

My life in a nutshell...there were only a few of us in my age group who got married right out of high school, or as in my case, right before I graduated. As a matter of fact, I recall attending the Jr/Sr prom in my wedding dress! How very "Parma"! My California-born husband, Brian, and I had our first child, Christopher, about a month before I turned 19. Our daughter, Melissa, was born 21 months later. The four of us moved to Hawai`i in 1981, so the kids actually grew up here. They're very "local". We worked in flooring (carpet, tile, vinyl, wood) until we bought into a cabinet shop. From there we moved into cabinet making, then fine furniture. Brian perfected the craft and became a master woodworker of some reknown with clients as far-flung as New York, Florida, and Guam (everywhere is so far from here.. I worked in the shop with him and in an interior design shop, but in 1991 I got involved in an adult literacy project at our main library. I am now the Executive Director of that project (which sounds a lot grander than it is :) especially since the program has essentially been closed since Dece08. Brian was diagnosed with colo-rectal cancer in Mar08, underwent radiation and chemo therapies and then had surgery in Dec08 (when I closed the program so I could accompany him to Honolulu for his surgery and then stay home to help him.) He had another surgery in F...Expand for more