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Sculpey Christmas Ornaments
Continuing our mad craft-making binge, we made some Sculpey ornaments. Sculpey, if you’re not familiar with it, is a plastic clay that hardens in your home oven at 275 degrees. People make jewelry and all kinds of stuff from it. It comes in a bunch of colors, or you can paint it. I got Cadillac…
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Touching Fan Mail
Having a novel published has been very exciting, but it’s even more exciting when people actually connect with your work. Authors spend so much time alone, it’s really hard to tell if anyone besides you will like your work. Since the book came out, I’ve been getting the occasional fan e-mail, which always brightens my…
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Christmas Elf Craft
Earlier this week, I went to Ben Franklin, the local craft store. I’ve only been to the store a couple of times because it’s really quite expensive to get crafts here, and we don’t have much space for either making crafts or storing the supplies. But I was looking for a craft for kids to…
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Dealing with Annoying People: Kid Edition
Yesterday, the Boy complained that a kid in his class was bothering him. “He makes fun of my name,” he said. “How so?” I flashed to Cadillac’s description of pretty much every male, from high school to basic training, making fun of the last name. The name caused the drill sergeant, apparently, to double over…
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Creepy Mascots
Mascots are supposed to be cute and fun. Generally I find them to be neither. I mean, I suppose some people love these things, because otherwise they wouldn’t be around, would they? When I was a kid, I found Manny, Moe and Jack to be extremely creepy. I always thought they were leering at me…
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Sea Life Park
Sea Life Park is a short drive from our house, but today marked only our second visit. There’s no season pass and it’s not as cheap as the Waikiki Aquarium, but not as expensive as, say, Sea World (and is maybe only an eighth of the size). If you live here, you can get a…
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Babycakes San Diego
So dude thought I wanted an Animal Style Burger WITH Animal Style fries. The lady plopped down a tray of fries covered in melted cheese, grilled onions, sauce, and meat. I think. I said I didn’t want them. She said, “He charged you $2 extra.” Well, I’m from Hawaii. What I paid in San Diego…
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My summer vacation: part one
San Diego was part work and part play. I hadn’t been off-island since I moved here over a year ago. You might think you wouldn’t need a vacation if you live in Hawaii, but the truth is that living here is pretty much like living anywhere else, once you become acclimated. You work, you take…
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People Magazine Review
People Magazine reviewed HOW TO BE AN AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE this week. It’s the one with the Duggars on the cover. If you don’t know the name Duggar, you might know of a family that has 19 kids. All single births, I believe. That adds up to many years of pregnancy. But I digress. People gave…
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San Diego Book Launch
Picture it: Star Wars, 1977. Lines snaking around the block. Okay, well, that’s a little bit bigger than my book launch, but that’s the idea of it. It was a standing-room only crowd at Barnes & Noble Grossmont (La Mesa), the biggest event they’d ever had. They sold out of books and the manager drove…
MARGARET DILLOWAY 