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  • Lottery: A Book Review

    In Patricia Wood’s debut novel Lottery, her narrator is not what those in literary circles would call reliable. And in society, Perry would not even be considered likeable. Read More
  • Patricia Wood: The Bird Wrasse Woman

    Patricia Wood, author of the book LotteryIt was dusk when I pulled into Nawiliwili Harbor on Kauai’s east shore and found Patricia Wood standing under a streetlamp in the middle of the marina parking lot. Read More
  • No Such Thing as Writers Block at the Maui Writers Conference

    Mylen Yamamoto is a senior at California State University, Los Angeles.  Here she reports on her experiences at the recent Maui Writers Conference.

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  • Falling into Manholes: An Excerpt

     Read an excerpt from this "memoir of a bad/good girl."

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  • Falling Into Manholes: A Review

    The publicity people behind Wendy Merrill’s Putnam-published memoir proclaim her to be a “fabulous, new Everywoman.” In Falling Into Maholes, Wendy—the “Everywoman”—writes about life, love and loss. She examines her past as thoroughly as a medical examiner intent on filling in the blank for cause of death. Read More
  • Wendy Merrill: Magic on Maui

    For Wendy Merrill, the island of Maui has conjured one alluring literary trick after another. Wendy always wanted to publish her writing, but, like many of us, she was afraid. She had no idea how to go about it. Now, after realizing her dream, she still isn’t quite sure how it happened.

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  • Discover Genuine Experiences

    Chance and circumstance can either open or close doors.  But I’ve found that for those who are willing to slow down, keep their minds open and listen for opportunity, then good fortune provides the occasional amazing discovery...the open door.

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  • No Task Is Too Big When Done Together

    Taro patch in Keanae, MauiIt was a cloudy Saturday morning. My weekend to-do list was as long as some of the lengthy street names around Hawaii, but weeks before, I had agreed to help weed a taro patch this morning. I looked outside at the cloud-shrouded mountain in my front yard and considered my options. Do I really want to pull weeds in the rain?

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  • Restoring Sacred Places

    The heiau, ancient stone temples, were at the center of an alii, or royal, center. Heiaus like this one at Kailua-Kona are being preserved and restored all across Hawaii. A deeper understanding of the past, helps create a culturally prosperous future – essential in the evolution of a prideful, flourishing society.

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  • Hawaii's Flora and Fauna

    white hibiscus, native hawaii plant, close upHawaii boasts every climate on the planet, excluding the two most extreme: arctic tundra and arid desert. The Islands have wine-growing regions, icy mountaintops, and the rainiest forests on earth. More than 90% of Hawaiian plants and animals are endemic, meaning they exist nowhere else on earth.
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