Nimitz Highway and River Street is an intersection on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.  This is where I impatiently came out of the womb ready to start on my own personal history.  I think my birth story reveals a lot about who I am. Impatience fueled by passionate conviction. I’m working on how these traits manifest themselves outwardly. In word, I’m trying to be more Zen. I grew up in upstate New York against the backdrop of the flowering women’s rights movement with different ideas from my mother as to what my life as a woman should be. As I moved deeper into my teenage year, I couldn’t avoid…