Look what happens when I don't get on the computer...nearly an entire year passes. Essentially I blew off the computer chit chat for a bit to discipline myself to write poetry, edit and publish. Number 1 & 2 I've got down....3 not so much. After hundreds of pages with not a one published, I am back to edit yet again. Not a big market for poetry ( Read more... )

I tried. I tried for three months to get Imagine to ride his bike with me everday. If we rode in the morning he said it was too hot. If we rode in the evening, he said it took too much time away from playing with his friends. He whined on the bike and off the bike. He wouldn't look at the mountains or the sky or even the bugs crossing the road. He ( Read more... )

Tomorrow Imagine and I have our second class with the ex-Krishna potter Steve Martin at the hawaii potter's guild downtown. This is a big deal for us to both be up and ready to leave the house by 7:30 in order to get to Honolulu by 9-ish. But soooooo worth it now that I've quit being a wimp about the morning rush hour and just got us down there. ( Read more... )

A friend down in the valley called to say there was a tsunami coming. Some earthquake off the coast of Japan. She is in the valley and has reason to be worried. We are up the mountain enough to be out of the "tsunami flood zone." But I wonder just how big of a wave we are safe from. I can see the ocean from our house and can walk down the block and ( Read more... )

If I turn the watering can one way, no toads. If I turn it the other, every morning a toad. I made kolacky today....my ancestor's contribution to decadance, obesity, clogged arteries and total mouth pleasure--cookies of butter, cream cheese, powdered sugar and flour. Rolled out, cut to squares, filled with a bit of raspberry preserves and folded to ( Read more... )

...of the season (for me at least) spotted just off Ma'ili Point this afternoon on my way home. It's a dangerous time on the road when my eyes can't keep from scanning oceanside for the blows coming up in puffs of water. It was clear and perfect as the sun was headed towards setting with the angle lighting up any activity on the water. A couple of ( Read more... )

....blew into the windows about an hour ago that smelled like tires burning which kinda ruins those tradewinds coming down from the mountains. We closed up and turned on the A/C to clear the house of whatever it was and now it's gone, house open again, cats called in for the night. I found a toad in my watering can this morning. Found two in there ( Read more... )

I'm on a food thing I guess. The end of August is closing in and just as the trades blow Kona (from the southwest instead of the usual northeast) you can count on the Lychee signs popping up on the side of Farrington highway heading home up the Waianae coast. Imagine and I spotted one today, almost too late to tire screech over to the right lane ( Read more... )

The moon is waxing full and again and everyone I know seems to be feeling wacked out. The ice cream bananas my friend brought me from the north shore are ripe and I cannot believe how white they are inside and how sweet. They really are like ice cream. I cut one up for my oatmeal this morning with almonds and cardamom. This summer has seen only a ( Read more... )

I am most of the time way behind what is happening in the world and online, but still thought I'd share a link to the handmade products site a friend of mine is selling her jewelery at:

http://www.etsy.com/index.php

Cool site and fun to check out for those who dig crafty creations.