Aloha to all of you friends and supporters of BAMBOO RIDGE. I hope your March is going well and that all your loved ones near and far are safe. Happy Birthday to all the March folks. Don't think of it as being a year older. Think of it as celebrating being a year better at…
Ever wanted to indent the paragraphs of your blogs, your news entries, or your bamboo shoot entries? Me too : ) Now you can! Thanks to BRP webmeister Haken Pax, you can now indent your paragraphs using the tag — with no space between the [ and the sp5] like I have…
Aloha to all you wonderful friends and supporters of BAMBOO RIDGE. I hope you all had a very Happy Valentine's Day. In case you didn't hear the good news, on February 3rd Punxsutawney Phil did not — I repeat did not — see his shadow. So you know what that means, right? It means that…
This is about my visit to Farrington High School.
Aloha to all you wonderful friends and supporters of BAMBOO RIDGE. I hope that you’re all having a great first month of 2011, and I also hope that you’re gearing up for a Happy Year of the Groundh–er, sorry, I mean Year of the Rabbit. As you probably know, BAMBOO RIDGE is a recognized 501(c)(3)…
The deadlines for the 100-word short-short story contest and for the 100-line story or poem submissions for the 100th issue of BAMBOO RIDGE have been extended : )
I went to the M.I.A. Art & Literary Series at Mercury Bar on December 8th to hear Bamboo Ridge writers Michelle Cruz Skinner, Lisa Linn Kanae, and Joe Tsujimoto read from some of their recent works. It was a brief gathering, but a fun, relaxing way to spend a weekday evening. Sadly, I arrived at…
Aloha to all of you friends of BAMBOO RIDGE, and a very happy Sunday to you. I hope your holiday festivities go well.
Ho ho ho MAN! I'm taking a swift break from flood control here, and ho ho hoping that I don't get the shock of my life while I'm working on this message. Fortunately, Bamboo Buckaroo brought me a wet-vac a few birthdays ago, so I seem to be holding back the rising tide. If you have one more gift to buy, I highly recommend a wet-vac. Maybe won't get used all the time, but when you need it, brother does it come in handy.
To the news!
The deadline for both the 100-word Great BR Short-Short Story Contest and the 100-line story/poem submissions for the 100th issue of BR are coming up.
The deadline for short-short stories, online, is Friday, December 31st, 2:00 p.m. Hawaiian Standard Time. Here are the winners for November:
http://www.bambooridge.com/news.aspx?nid=191
The deadline for the 100-line submissions, by snail-mail post only, i
Happy Sunday to all you friends of BAMBOO RIDGE. I hope everyone had a great weekend. My turkey is now defrosting in the fridge in anticipation of a Happy Thanksgiving — sadly for everyone except the turkey — and I'm happy to say that I've finally finished all my holiday season shopping — for last…
Brien Hallet, Associate Professor at the University of Hawaiʻi's Institute for Peace reviews Juliet Kono's novel, 'Anshu'