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Recyclable Project: Water Bottle Bubbles
After you’re done bubbling, recycle the bottles as usual and feel a little less guilty for purchasing the water bottles in the first place (you can also take comfort in knowing you kept some people employed in this terrible economy and possibly prevented a tax-payer-paid bailout of water bottlers) .
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To Tell or Not to Tell?
To avoid these problems, my husband thinks I should not tell anyone that I’m a writer, ever. That’s because he’s secretive. He only volunteers information when absolutely necessary and even then people drag it out of him. I volunteer info because you never know what the other person will share.
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Punchbowl
Whilst we are here in Hawaii, we have decided to partake of as many free attractions as possible. Because we are cheap. And we also lack money. I suppose if we had unlimited funds, we would spend the weekends exploring the Big Island or Maui or spend this week off jetting to Australia as my…
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My Mother, Myself, Boo Bah and Nagasaki
My brother scanned a bunch of old family slides and sent them to me. Most are countless pics of zebras, old-school Disneyland, and my older brothers (there are maybe two existing baby pics of me) but these held particular interest to me: This pic of my mom, posing with a fan, in front of this…
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10 Things About Buying Furniture in Hawaii
I thought about the people I knew who had lost everything they owned in one of the fires in San Diego– and there have been several throughout the time I’ve lived there– and felt like I was whining. Because at least I got to keep my All-Clad pans and my big stand mixer and all…
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Ode to William Shatner, the Singer
I find William Shatner endlessly entertaining and have for years, thank you very much, way before he got the role on that show with James Spader. Because a long time ago, he was doing spoken-word records and singing. Anyway, one of my favorite songs is his version of “Common People” originally done by Pulp. “Common…
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Hawaii Writer’s Conference
The Hawaii Writer’s Conference was this past weekend. One thousand writers and a handful of editors and agents and writers, giving talks and workshops and consultation sessions. Hawaii has to be the worst place for a writing conference ever. You look outside and all you want to do is go sit under an umbrella or…
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Beach Break
Ever since we moved to Hawaii Kai, we have been looking around for a good kid-friendly beach that’s close. Sandy’s is the closest, but is very rough. The most the kids can do is wade, and not even much of that lest they get sucked ankle-first into the sea. Sandy’s waves break on the shore…
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Bad to Good, Good to Bad
Yesterday I saw an ad in an old magazine at the dentist’s office for Tylenol PM. The ad has a calendar and asked you put your mood down each day (happy face, angry face, neutral face, etc.) as well as how well you slept the night before to track how sleep and mood are correlated…
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The Night Marchers
I found a recipe. It’s Borax and sugar, in a ratio of 1:3, mixed together with water and a little peanut butter. Then, you place the stuff into a container. For the outside container, I used a butter tub with holes in it, so dogs can’t get into it but the ants can. Not that…
MARGARET DILLOWAY 