Linda Delmar:  

Hello! Like many I did the marriage, kids, baseball/soccer/choir/theater mom thing, blah, blah, blah. I'm a late bloomer. Somehow my life took on a life of its own. I followed my passions and was led to discover talents I never knew I had. In my 30's I became a nut about video and I ended up producing a two time award winning community talking heads show in Long Beach. In my 40's I started writing, which led me to becoming a Spoken Word Artist performing at high schools, colleges and different venues. In 1997 I wrote a play about a ghost story experience I had when I was 12 years old while I was a student at Dodson - it was so well received in Long Beach that in 1999 I produced it again in San Pedro and New York (off-broadway), which was one of my ultimate highs. At the same time I found a great hula kumu (teacher) and I trained for the Merrie Monarch, which is the Olympics of hula. 1999 was an incredible year, but I had to choose between my play and hula - I chose the play. Soon after I divorced and had to rebuild my life while putting three kids through college. I'm proud to say I have three college grads. Hula came back into my life when I reluctantly accepted a temporary position as a hula instructor which ended up becoming a 6 year business which satisfied a youthful dream I had to be professional dancer - I was in my 50's but it finally happened! In 2006 my little sister Tina (15 years younger) was in a devastating motor vehicle accident which rendered her a quadriplegic and unable to speak. It has been difficult these past 5 1/2 years I have been her patient advocate, her voice, and her cheerleader with medical, legal responsibilities but I have never given up the hope that she will recover. And despite many people thinking she would never recover, she's come along way and we've both learned so much. In ...Expand for more