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Aloha! In our daily lives, countless opportunities arise to show aloha, moments we must recognize and act upon. As a former school principal in a high-needs rural Hawaiʻi community, I…
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Bamboo Ridge Press author inspires young writers and joins community leaders at UH Mānoa What does it mean for Hawaiʻi students to meet a local author face-to-face? For some, it’s…
We asked her to share a little bit about the process of preparing for this event and how it’s different from writing poetry. What feels different about shaping a personal…
The Bones of “Other Options” Remember that time you called and that message you left? It was late, and I was already passed out at my girlfriend’s house. When I…
Her shift had ended at 12:30, her co-workers tired and gone, but she liked to sit and smoke with the strays that lived in the bushes behind the drive-thru. During…
In this week’s The Bones of Blood Work, Donald Carreira Ching revisits “Kāneʻohe Town”—the shortest piece in the collection, and one of its most essential. Written as a sensory exercise,…