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What a wild ride around the sun this past year was. I moved thousands of miles across an ocean, met new friends and join...
03/28/2026

What a wild ride around the sun this past year was. I moved thousands of miles across an ocean, met new friends and joined a new-to-me community, all with by my side. I made some of the best new memories with my dad, coupled with the worst and largest loss of my life. I spent time across continents and also right at my new home, on O’ahu, getting to know her and who she is; and then the floods came, to round things all out for good measure. This year has shown me, over and over, how and why I love my friends and family, the people who surround me. They’re the ones I make the best memories with and also the ones who are always there for me, checking in, making sure I am ok, day after day. I don’t know what this next year will bring, but honestly, there’s no way I could have predicted anything from how this past year went either. I’m learning to let go more and more, and simply enjoy the time I have with the people I love, new and old. Here’s to an exciting new year up ahead, one I have no idea what to expect from, but that I know will be beautiful, demanding, exciting, fascinating and will teach me so much, again. And I’m so grateful to everyone who has reached out to me this year, at any point, and offered a check-in, a stupid meme, a text, a call or a visit, because it means more than you know. I hope I’ve been able to do even a fracture of returning the favor to all of my family and friends, and I can’t wait to build another year of memories together, good and “bad”, whatever they may be 💛🧡🩷 thank you for the photo, and thank you Missy for reminding me of it last night :)

03/22/2026

F**k. A lot of people have it worse than me, I know people lost their entire homes during this flood. And luckily everything we had in the house (clothes, bedding) was all ok, but f**k. This is everything I had in storage; all my gear, all my cold weather clothes and things I need for when I travel off island; down sleeping bags, climbing gear, my tripod, computer monitor, backcountry equipment, appliances, car accessories, meaningful gifts from friends and family; things that meant enough to me to want to ship them 3,000 miles on a pallet across the ocean, all f**ked. And I know it’s replaceable and it’s all just things, and I know I will be ok. But in this moment all I feel is, f**k.

03/22/2026

F**k dude. Other people have it worse, some people lost their entire homes, and luckily all of our clothes and the things that were inside our house are ok, but we had a storage shed across from our house where I’d been storing all of my most important gear and memories and camera equipment and winter clothes; everything that I had cared enough to ship 3,000 miles on a pallet across an ocean and it’s all f**ked. Down sleeping bags, lamps, new boots, one of the few trophies I ever got from a banked slalom that was also signed artwork, my tripod, computer monitor, climbing gear, outwear; gifts from friends and family. I know it’ll be ok, I know it’s all replaceable. But in this moment all I feel is, f**k.

03/21/2026

Twelve hours later back at the property; first house we walk through here is ours which got flooded with feet of water and the second is the other unit that got hammered with mud. For everyone asking - our house is off of Waialua Beach road along the river in Haleiwa/Waialua and it’s been getting hammered with water from both sides, from the runoff from all of the neighborhoods into the river and then from the river itself when it starts to rise and overflow the banks. 🥲 So far everything in our house was above the water line but it literally was inches away before the waters receded. We grabbed a few more essentials and then went back to our friend’s place for the night because the ground is SO saturated and it’s supposed to rain more again tonight 🫠🤞🏼 here we go again; I’m just glad we got all of the important things out and all humans and dogs are safe!!!

03/20/2026

Woke up at 1am to this; we all got out, our cars are out, the dogs are out and we’re safe but please check on your friends and check in with people because the water is still rising. It had come up another three feet from this by the time we left and we just had to get out so we didn’t get stuck. Really just happy we got out and our friends woke us up; so grateful for everyone here I cannot say that enough 🩷

03/13/2026

We took a drive to see how things were looking in Haleiwa town this morning with the Kona storm. There has been so much rain coming in - everyone on the property has prepped for possible floods but haven’t had to put anything into action yet. We’re keeping our fingers crossed, stay safe out there everyone!

03/06/2026

📍 MYOKO COFFEE 高原駅前店, 307-6 Taguchi, Myoko, Niigata 949-2106, Japan
☕️ Costa Rica “Finca El Canal Black Diamond Natural”
I visited Myoko Coffee on my last trip to Japan. This bean a tasty, tangy, quirky little brew that I absolutely loved as cold coffee in the morning. The tasting notes I wrote down for myself were - brown sugar, raspberry, plum and apple banana. And I really get so much apple banana!! It’s a Costa Rican coffee that went through a natural process (where the funk comes from). When a coffee is sent through the “natural” process, that refers to how it was dried after harvesting and in the natural process the coffee cherry is left intact for 3-6 weeks which results in some fermentation process happening, hence - the funk 😎

Literally me just being myself in all my weird, happy, awkward, stoic, joyful states; each one being just as special as ...
03/01/2026

Literally me just being myself in all my weird, happy, awkward, stoic, joyful states; each one being just as special as the last, captured on gorgeous film by

Went to Japan because my heart hurt and I missed my friends and I missed snowboarding and I missed the mountains. It mig...
02/10/2026

Went to Japan because my heart hurt and I missed my friends and I missed snowboarding and I missed the mountains. It might not be the kind of thing you’d expect to see from someone who just lost their father; their rock, their North Star - but it’s the kind of thing that felt right in my heart and in my soul. It’s about what resonates and what feels good in the moment, because all of the moments just feel numb now, and the bit of joy that seeps through is worth its weight in gold. I’m so grateful to all of my friends for being there for me, on the days that were simply “sad days” and for being there when my brain was fogged over and I became the passenger princess who trailed behind them as we navigated the trains, cities and automobiles of a country that allowed us to come find joy there. Thank you Yui for welcoming me into your home and your family with open arms after 20 years and for bringing the biggest smile to my face (and endless love-filled tears on the train) after just one night visiting you in your hometown. I’m grateful for this life and for what I’m able to do, all day every day, and how I’m able to live and move through this world. I credit it all to my dad and I know I carry him with me every day. 🩷 now it’s time to travel east for your service to celebrate your life. Love you Dad 🩷

02/05/2026

I haven’t laughed this hard in a long, long time. Sometimes you just need to take a little excursion with some of your best friends on the other side of the world and remember what brings you joy in this life. So f**kin grateful for these angels, for the fact that I even have the ability to do this right now, and so f**king grateful for POW 😝 it’s a real form of therapy 🥹

01/13/2026

Thomas Edward Kuklinski, my amazing, wonderful, kind, loving and best dad in the world to me and my sister, passed away Dec 28th, 2025. He had been diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer three years earlier, and back in late October we were told that there were no more effective treatments available for him. I had the amazing gift of being able to spend the last two months at home, with him and our family, through to the end, and then past that for a while longer into the New Year as well. I have so many words and memories and feelings I want to share to express just how much he meant to me, and means to me, and how he was my absolute rock and best friend throughout a childhood and a life that was rocky and unmoored and chaotic at home; but sharing those with everyone will all come with time. We talked weekly, I would run everything by him to get his thoughts, opinions and to make him both very nervous as well as extremely proud. I don’t know how to say goodbye, or what it means to lose someone this pivotal and central to a life, but I do know I carry him with me, always, wherever I go. This journey will be a long one, a lifelong one, that I truly never expected to encounter this early. All I can say for sure though is that I’ll see him in the mountains, the forest, the trees - I’ll have him with me on my walks and long drives and I take with me everything he has taught me, which is everything that makes me who I am. I love you Dad. - your little girl, jfk 🤍

My dad asked me to read him something this morning, he was in a hard place with his pain and we were trying to find some...
12/13/2025

My dad asked me to read him something this morning, he was in a hard place with his pain and we were trying to find something comforting to settle him down so I found an old blog post and loved reading it so much, it felt like something I wanted to share again. So here it is, I hope you enjoy it today too 💛

The whole reason why I started this blog was to help remind myself why I’m living the life that I do. Once or twice a year, I start to falter in my conviction and second-guess my lifestyle choices. In fact, one of those times is occurring right now. I panic, I can’t sleep well at night, I feel anxious for no apparent reason. It’s usually coupled with a significant lack of money, which either spurs on my anxiety even further or is the main trigger to it. I usually accompany it with an intense desire to go shopping and purchase a whole new wardrobe- that feeling of needing to reinvent myself kicking in hard.

What saves me are my friends. I’m pretty sure I’d be on 1,000’s of different medications if I didn’t have friends. I think a lot, probably too much (hence the reason I can’t smoke w**d- more thoughts and reduced ability to talk? No thanks). It begins with a choice, something I have to decide. My mind will start racing in a circle, going over the options and every possible outcome over, and over, and over until I’ve literally paced in a circle, picking the same three things up and setting them down again and again. The thing I’ve learned that saves me is an interaction with another person. As soon as I engage with someone, I’m free. My mind sits back, relaxes, and no longer cares about the 20 various hypothetical consequences of wearing shoes versus sandals to walk to the corner store.

My brain helps me out a lot, and all of the thinking it goes through has pushed me to do more in my life than I ever thought possible. But what’s really made my life possible are my friends. From inviting me out on trips, to finding a new drink at a bar to merely hanging out and pulling me out of my head- friends are the most important thing I’ve gained throughout my life. So, thanks friends. You’re awesome.

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