Yes, it’s that holiday-ze time of year when all hell breaks loose on O’ahu roads. Add rain, and you’ve got a perpetual display of how bad drivers can be on this island. I mean REALLY bad drivers. I mean their driving ability is zero. But on to happier topics. You know the routine already, but…

Congratulations to Jim Harstad, DoreenB, Homelessinhonolulu, and Darrel. You are the November winners for The Year of the Rooster Writing Contest. You have each won 10 Bamboo Bucks to spend in our online store. Just mention that you’re a Novermber winner when you check out. Again, congratulations to you all : )

Aunty Jenny used to roast da turkey fo Tanksgiving every year. Uncle Jim bring da turkey straight from da oven, da big brown bird still steaming. Errybody look at um, clap their hands, and go “whoa.” Den he go back to da kitchen and cut um up. When Ah Po make ginger chicken she bring…

Once upon another century, Ali’i women bathed In Little pond’s cool clear waters, Their broad coconut-oiled shoulders Glistening like smooth lacquered koa Under a tropical sun. Her lens mirrored the song of the iwi’i, Tracing its hurried flight path; Darkening to the approach of rain clouds, That birthed mountain springs Refreshing her vision. When the…

Creating light, love’s knowing fashion makes Some man, some woman reach in time in place To touch, their wordless press to hold each one. To find in other’s capture, purify, Make sensual semblance mystic as of old Before they pass beyond the mythic plot Then ever gone. To language moved among A throng of hopes,…

Whitey, an avid golfer, thought I should be too. The last time he visited, ever, he brought a five-gallon plastic bucket full of old golf balls he’d collected over time and bequeathed them to me. Dutiful son, I stuck them in the attic and forgot them. Palolo gets a lot of rain, but no snow,…

Aloha and a very Happy November to all of you. I hope October was a good month. Here are the guidelines for this month’s writing contest. Yup, they’re the same as usual. You can write a haiku or You can write a piece that is exactly 100 words or You can write a piece that…

Congratulations to Darrel and Jim Harstad. You are the October winners for The Year of the Rooster Writing contest. You have each won 10 Bamboo Bucks to spend in our online store. Just mention that you’re an October winner when you check out. Again, congratulations to you both.

Trick. Fool. Bamboozle. Clowns are they who vie for attention in this tragicomic vein. On the face of it, so to speak, it seems funny to wear too much makeup while trying to pedal a ridiculously undersized velocipede toward some stupidly ambiguous destination. Or is it sad? Is that the trick? Who’s the trickster? Who…

Desire The Devil makes you an offer every day again and again that you should be his, and then your life will change to gold. And your sufferings will cease in an instant, and you will get everything you want happiness and time endless time. His desire for you doesn’t gobble you all up at…