The Puna region of Hawaiʻi is having a tough a year. Hurricane Iselle seemed to do her worst there, crippling businesses and residents for weeks without power and water. And just when things started to improve, the communities of Pahoa have been in the path of a steadily moving lava flow for the past month. […]
If I get him a tie, it will never leave his dresser drawer. If I buy an aloha shirt it’ll only get added to the long cue of his, already, “favorite” aloha shirts. More tools would just be silly, and more kitchen and grilling gadgets too. Sometimes Dad is the hardest person to shop for. […]
Happy Mother’s Day to all the great Mums! I saw this article on “Ideas for Mother’s Day Book Lists“. It’s a collection of links to different book-lists on the web with popular titles that Moms like. Inspired by this, I thought it might be nice to make a list of our own. So, if your household matriarch is […]
Happy Valentine’s Day I don’t think there’s any other “holiday” that can inspire such a variety of opinions and reactions in people like Valentine’s Day does. It’s often the holiday people love to hate, an excuse to take their cynicism to obnoxious levels. While I certainly agree that it’s one of our most commercial occasions, I still love Valentine’s […]
On this day, 122 years ago, January 24, 1889, Robert Louis Stevenson, the famous author of such novels as Treasure Island and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, arrived in Hawaii with his family aboard his yacht the Casco. Prior to landing in Hawaii, the Casco cruised around the Pacific including the Marquesas, […]
It’s time…it’s time…it’s Book End Time! Welcome to this week’s Book End, highlighting the weekend’s literary and library events here in Hawaii. If you’ve visited our page before, and have had the courage to explore our limited fare, you may have come across our primitive book list, which was just a simple listing of all the […]
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
Moʻomanaʻo Moʻokalaleo Pūnaewele o Hawaiʻi
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