Geez I just can’t make up my mind. Do I want to be Dora or Swiper for Halloween? I have to dress for a kid’s party and while there I have to manage the money, control the crowd, execute good decisions and educate the little ones. I just don’t know which costume [...]

Yesterday, I found myself utterly calm and positive. WTF? Easygoing and blissed-out. That was me. You know how it takes forever to get your kids from point A to point B, and you end up not wanting to go anywhere because leaving is always a struggle? After hanging out [...]

I am starting school tours for junior kindergarten. I’m always surprised by some of the questions parents ask on these tours or why they express any concerns out loud in front of the director. At this point we’re being watched, not our children. We’re the ones applying and they’re assessing if we’ll [...]

Just saw the Dutch version of “The Descendants”. I always wondered why the Netherlands would publish my book–it’s a place big on windmills, cheese, clogs, bicycles and little ovens, but then I remembered they’re also big on drugs, prostitution, and euthanasia, so it made a little more sense. But just a little.
I love [...]

1. What’s with Republicans and their bag of tricks? They keep coming. They’re like clowns that keep getting out of a car. Joe Six- Pack, Joe the Plumber. I hope Joe the Drunk Plumber is next.
2. Did anyone picture Joe as this little weird old dude like [...]

Little E, oh how I hate thy tantrums. You howled like Ginsburg as we left the park. Would not hold my hand on busy street. Cars sped along driven by lunatics with meth addictions. I held you very tightly. This you did not like. But I clasped your little [...]

I’m going to miss Palin and Biden tonight. I love any opportunity I get to hear her speak and I hope she grants me another interview. Maybe I can find out what she’s watching on T.V, or what’s in her make-up bag! And ol’ Joe, I’ll miss him tonight, too. He’s [...]

Theme of our weekend: Stuffy
1. Dinner with friends at Kalapawai, a quaint little place in Kailua. We came at 5:30 and sat outside. Little E was with me and was joined by her friend whom I wrote about in the Honolulu Magazine article, Dining with Shorty. However satisfied I was [...]