It was Friday night just before the grom surf contest at Lahaina Library Park, and you three boys of high school age jumped on my boat and stole two fishing gaffs out of my cockpit. My boating neighbor saw you in the red shirt and red shorts running off with my gear, and he called the police and filed a complaint. If your Dads don’t give you one good likk’n and you keep up that … [Read more...] about Eh Brah!
Kula Kid
Forest Through The Trees
Whenever I happen to meet readers in person—and can’t skirt mumbling my name or how I make a living—I’m met with reactions like, “Wait—are you Anu from MauiTime?! Oh, you’re the ninja girl!” or “Oh, you’re the Kula girl!” (And on one occasion, a baroness of backhanded compliments told me, “Hmm, I wouldn’t have guessed—by the way that you speak—that you write the way you do.” … [Read more...] about Forest Through The Trees
My Apologies Pop
I like to say that “I love living in the future.” So what if it’s not yet a Jetsons world1? Our time’s got great things like The Internets, cures for cancer, and frickin’ lasers sold in Thai street markets for baht that equals but a few US bucks. Hell, even scabby panhandlers have computers in their pockets (Trustafarians aside)! Sweet though they can be, contrivances of this … [Read more...] about My Apologies Pop
Attack Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster
Rolling over to hit Snooze. I call it the Death Roll. You know, like, Crikey! But instead of a crocodile leveraging a carcass, twisting like a dirt devil to dislodge a haunch-o-wildebeest, I’m turning to hit snooze over and over again. Doing this, it doesn’t take long before I’m all coiled-up in the comforter with ankles bound together like a single hoof. And save a solitary … [Read more...] about Attack Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster
stsiL fO kooB
When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up. -Rodney Dangerfield Alright. I’m breaking form a little this week to make way for (you guessed it!) more lists. But hey, I gotta say something about this whole “Book of Lists” thing: A list of adorable-sounding invasive species? Another compiling tastiest aliens? WTF was I thinking, right? I suppose I’m starting to … [Read more...] about stsiL fO kooB