Category: Culture
Hitting ‘Send’ on Book Manuscript
These descendants are now, more than 100 years later, about to have a huge family reunion, and will have this book available for any of the many, many descendants who want to learn more about how their family came to be. There’s information in this book that I’d wager most of them – or maybe even all of them – don’t know. We dug pretty deep to find some of it.
The Sound of Kids Chattering in Hawaiian
I had forgotten about writing this editorial about kids speaking Hawaiian, but stumbled upon it online today (while looking for something else). It was a long time ago. In fact, I wrote this article during the first year I was freelancing as a writer. The newspaper I wrote it for, …
Painting Pictures About Hawaii
Whether it’s writing content about Hawaii’s business, travel, culture or people—or something else—I do it.
Memoir: Isabella Bird in the Sandwich Islands
“There is also a dog, but he does not understand English.”— Isabella Bird, from The Hawaiian Archipelago
Howie Mandel, My Great-Great-Great Grandfather & Hawaii’s Poi
I could almost see him: The elderly, blind man with the thick shock of white hair, sitting on a lauhala mat on the floor, a cloth tied around his forehead to catch the sweat, swinging a stone poi pounder rhythmically onto the cooked kalo on the wooden poi board in front of him.
Kahoolawe, 3
The traditional style – where families and communities live near each other, and share, and help, and where people make and gather what they need – makes so much sense to me. A lot of us have gotten far away from that. That’s pretty much how life worked on Kaho‘olawe, though, and I liked it.
Kahoolawe, 2
Your feet (and the rest of you) get very dirty with the island’s rich-colored red-brown dirt. They call it a Kaho‘olawe tan.