A Word About The Name...

I just realized the other day...hmmmmm.. people are probably wondering about the name of your ol' blog there Kate. So I will take a mo to explain the name. Now I'm sure most of you out there at one point or another had an imaginary friend. My sister sure had one, his name was Eric, Prince Eric to be exact. We had to set a place for him at the table and I know for sure that some of you out there know ALL too well what I'm talking about. Well, I can honestly say I never had one. BUT, and this is a big but people because I didn't need one. I had Mrs. Pannapulah. Mrs. Pannapulah was my alter ego. Anytime my little self slipped into the land of make believe Mrs. Pannapulah is who I became. I wasn't always Mrs. per se, sometimes I was Dr. Pannapulah, Nurse Pannapulah, Your Honor Supreme Court Judge Pannapulah; anything I wanted to be I became with Mrs. Pannapulah. And I guess she's kind of been with me ever since. When I decided I wanted to move to the big city and make a way for myself in graduate school, it was Mrs. Pannapulah that walked home many a night after two jobs to a tiny expensive shit hole in Allston. When I met that really sweet guy (the husbandman) and wanted to talk to him, it was Mrs. Pannapulah that got me over there and said hello. And when I get up and try and teach kids about art and how their creativity can just explode, well you get the idea. So maybe you don't have your imaginary friend with you anymore, but I'm still kickin it with Mrs. Pannapulah and hopefully I can introduce her to my little ones someday...

this is Mrs. Pannapulah, or at least my rendition of her from my grad school thesis. people say she's creepy but her face is pure color.