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HOW TO B
Virginia Loo
Released Oct 14, 2024
A story about trying to become a single mom
Breaking Traditions
Could I write a “how to” book about trying to become a single mom, or being a mom at all? Could anyone? Well, maybe “Popo,” as we called my father’s grandmother. She raised mullet in the Hanaloa fishpond at Pearl Harbor, which kept her 10 kids fed and afforded them to go to college. She’d have something to say, and I bet she wouldn’t write a book. She’d tell me, though, “Just do what you gotta do.
—Breaking Traditions, Honolulu Magazine (February 2025)
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Virginia Loo
Author
Virginia Loo has a doctorate in epidemiology, but doesn’t practice public health anymore. Except in times of global pandemics, in which case everyone thinks they are an epidemiologist, so she does too. She lives in Honolulu with her family.
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Spoiler Alert
B and Me
“my child, let’s call him B, short for Behemoth”
“There were more ways to get off this fertility cliff than to just fall off or close my eyes and hide in a barrel. With the right preparation couldn’t I strive to be a Mexican cliff diver, or Greg Louganis at the 1988 Olympics? But then, why dive at all? My plan could take me in a totally different direction. More like building a rocket and launching it at the moon. This would be the Mother of all plans, the kind of plan that would require the cooperation of a lot of different people and serious monetary resources and an exquisite sense of timing and that was just the beginning.”
Bringing Up Baby: talking about writing How to B
check out this Interview with Susan Essoyan and Virginia Loo
