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Make Your Own Ugly Monster Rag Doll
The whole thing took me a few hours to make. My sewing skills are in the “Wing-It” category, so if you know what you’re doing go right ahead and disregard it all. You could also obviously use a sewing machine, but I didn’t.
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Tale of the Sale
When you have dreamed about getting to this point since you were five years old, you are going to be beyond pleased. I mean, at that point, I would have added vampires and zombies if she asked me to. Well, not really. But almost.
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Ghosts of Hawaii
Ghosts, or obake, are everywhere in Hawaii. You can’t go a mile without seeing a haunted house or place. The H3 highway was said to be cursed; several people died while building it. My friend drove me through Kaimuki, a modern neighborhood near downtown, and pointed out several haunted houses on the street where she…
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The Wild Ones
I have a lot of hair. By a lot, I mean that every time I go to a hairdresser– even the same one I’ve been going to for years– he or she remarks, “You have more hair than anyone I’ve ever seen!” The floor is covered in what looks like reproducing Tribbles.
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Secret Beaches of Oahu
There’s more to Oahu than Waikiki. We’ve been slowly discovering some lesser-used beaches. A hiking path near the lighthouse (not sure of the name, but it faces Sea Life Park and Waimanalo) forks into three roads. One goes up, two go down. We took one that went down. Here we followed a trail for perhaps…
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Book Cover
Here is the final book cover: This book cover was, I think, used for the catalog, but is now no more.
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Why I’m Afraid of Reading
Which leads me to my next thought: “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” Anne Herbert, THE NEXT WHOLE EARTH CATALOG: ACCESS TO TOOLS ed. Stewart Brand (1980).
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My Starbucks Moment
The other little item that happened was a woman in front of me ordered some sort of foamy complex drink with nonfat milk. I thought she must be watching her calories. I felt a bit scrutinized when I took the lid off my coffee and poured in my cream in front of her. Then she…
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Dazed and Confused: Getting Around Hawaii
I used to think I could depend on certain things while driving, to a reasonable degree. For instance, if I am going 40 miles an hour down the highway (which is 5 miles an hour over) then I used to think that people waiting to turn right will not wait until I am more than…
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Something to Watch Out For…
Lookalike book covers! Louisewrites has a list of book covers gone wrong– or gone similar. Wouldn’t you be bummed if your book looked almost exactly like another book? I would be.
MARGARET DILLOWAY 