Some fine ladies from Kappa Kappa Gamma book club took me to lunch yesterday. I love going to book clubs–the fact that you’re not up at a podium–you’re sitting amongst people slurping on egg drop soup and such–makes people ask normal questions. When you’re at a reading they typically ask questions to make [...]

When I was twelve-years-old my friends and I used to have car washes to raise money for beer, but if customers asked we’d say it was for sodas or for children with leprosy or whatever. We ran a pretty tight ship. Only one customer sticks out this entire time. He was an [...]

Conde Nast’s July issue is all about Hawaii. It’s a great insider’s guide, pointing out the usual popular spots as well as those off the grid. They’ve asked “famous” locals with Hawaii connections their favorite places/things to do. I use quotes around famous because I’m in it, too, and if I had [...]

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I had some fun nights out this week, celebrating Andy’s return. He was working on a trial on Maui for eight weeks and has yet to sleep in our new house for a week straight. Went to Kalapawai one night. This place is my frenemy. I have had some good meals [...]

I’m headed to my high school tonight to try and sell some copies of The Descendants, my sorry novel that needs all the help it can get.It should be fun–books and art by Punahou alumni, music, food, beer, seeing popular kids going saggy and bald. I wish that other alum author was going to [...]

We’ve moved. My hours have been dedicated to packing boxes, inhaling solvents and moving stickers and little plastic things from one house to another. Andy has been on Maui in a trial for seven weeks now. I swear there’s no trial–he’s just gone to Maui during a move and watches Monster [...]