Congratulations to Doreen B, Jim Harstad, Darrell, and Normie Salvador. You are all winners this month. As always, you’ve won ten Bamboo Bucks to spend in the online store. Just mention that you’re a January winner when you check out. Now get ready for the Year of the Rooster Writing Contest : )

Uncle, you made any resolutions? Hah? Why you like me turn around? Uncle, RES-OH-LU-SHEN. I knew dat. You tink I donno about revolutions? Every year, I make revolutions like “I not going drink any more.” Yeah, yeah, I heard dat one befo Uncle…you not going drink any less either. Fo real kine. I going shut…

This Friday the thirteenth, the moon an unfiltered LED, sending misspelled beams of nite lite dappling the quiescent leaves, stunned to stillness absolute. Seen upside-down from the second floor, eerie, inside-out haloes swallow themselves whole, fully absorbed before they ever form. The cold, aura-free black lite, looms sinister and fully, elegantly chic, like pearls against…

The day before I started my school suspension — more about that later — we learned of my father’s decision to quit his current job. The two had some things in common, and I thought it an interesting coincidence: No school for me, no work for him. A lecture for me from my mom, and…

Looking back Kaleo is twelve going on thirteen when Child Welfare Services takes him from his mother and places him with his father, his father’s new wife and their young daughter. His mother is not there to see him off from the Hilo airport bound for Honolulu where his new family lives. The only person…

Okay, we had a record number of entries for the December contest, and we’re looking to break that record this month. If you guessed it, then you guessed right. We’re going up again this month. So, you can write: a haiku or a piece that is exactly 100 words or you can accept the big…

Congratulations to Piihonua, Jim Harstad, Mila Patterson, Darrell, Doreen B., Normie Salvador, and Writewords. You’re all winners in this month’s contest. You’ve each won 10 Bamboo Bucks to spend in the online store. Just mention that you’re a December winner when you check out. Mahalo for entering our contest, and keep writing : )

Stories that conjure up memories of the ohana at Christmas hold a special place in the hearts of many of us, it helps bring their warm aloha back to you, right where you are. I started writing this one while occupying a cramped space in a concrete block, steel bars defiantly staring back at me….

The twinkling of brilliant colors in front of the black tapestry of the night sky. The soft hum of happy melodies seeping out the windowsills of every house. The soft curve of the lips of the people walking in the streets. The beautifully wrapped boxes topped with elegant red bows under the fresh evergreen trees…

Uncle give us firecrackers every Christmas. He dress up like Santa Claus, but we know das him. And he always tell, “You gotta be safe when you pop firecracker. No hold in your hand. Put um on da ground.” Most times we no listen. We unwind da #100 pack and burn um one by one…