Growing Up Samoan in California
I was born in Torrance, California. My parents moved from Apia in the late 80s, and I grew up in a house where English and Samoan mixed freely. I didn’t…
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My Grandmother’s Fale
The first time I visited Samoa, I was twelve. My grandmother’s fale was in a village on the south coast of Upolu — no walls, just posts and a thatched…