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In Memory of Heroes in Hawaii

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Tue 12/8/2009

Destination: Oahu

When you live in Hawai'i, you don't forget December 7, the anniversary of the attack of Pearl Harbor 68 years ago. It's a day of remembrance. Today is another such day. The 25th anniversary of the Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational. It only runs when the surf reaches heights of 20 feet at Waimea on O'ahu during the annual one-month holding period. In its 25-year history, the event has only run seven times. Today makes eight.
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Wild Pigs and White Sand Beaches in Hawaii

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Thu 10/29/2009

Destination: Kauai

When the first Polynesians roamed the vast Pacific in search of land, they loaded their canoes with all kinds of plants and animals to sustain themselves once they arrived at their destination—which turned out to be a place we call Hawai’i. One of the animals with which they arrived? Pigs. Pigs are culturally significant to Hawai’i, as you may know from attending a lu’au. But did you know they roam wild in and around civilization?

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Hawaii’s St. Damien

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Mon 10/12/2009

Destination: Hawaii Island, Kauai, Maui, Oahu

Pope Benedict XVI canonized Jozef De Veuster yesterday, Rosary Sunday, October 11, 2009. In Hawai'i, we know him as Father Damien. He arrived in Hawai’i on March 19, 1864 as Brother Damien. Two months later, the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace ordained him a priest. In 1873, Father Damien asked to be assigned to a peninsula on the north shore of Moloka’i, known as Kalaupapa, where he could minister to the 816 Hawaiians who had been exiled there, because they suffered from Hansen’s Disease.

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Multi-Cultural Healing on Kauai

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Wed 10/7/2009

Destination: Kauai

For centuries Hawaiians traveled to a healing heiau (sacred site) in Lawai valley. Then, in the late 1800s, Asian immigrants arrived to work on sugar plantations and erected Taoist and Shinto temples. In 1904, a series of eighty-eight small Shingnon shrines--miniature temples with figures of wood and stone--were crafted and set along a path to replicate a traditional temple pilgrimage route of more than 1,000 miles in Shikoku, Japan, that was established more than 1,000 years ago.
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Possibility is Alive on Kauai

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Mon 9/14/2009

Destination: Kauai

Earlier in the day, as I chatted with the gas station attendant who pumped gas into my Jeep, we both commented on the day. Only a few clouds mingled above the mountaintops in the center of the island. The sky and the ocean gleamed a brighter blue than normal. It felt like a chocolate sundae kind of day.
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Hawai'i Writers Conference. Day 3

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Mon 9/7/2009

Destination: Oahu

Located in the middle of the Pacific and known as the most remote body of land in the world, Hawai’i exists in its own time zone. But I think time works in another way here. More times than I can count, I run into just the person I seek, know, need, want. It’s like a conspiracy is going on. Out of the thousands of people in Waikiki, the elevator doors open and there’s one of the two people I know attending the Hawai’i Writers Conference.
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Hawaii Writers Conference. Day 2

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Sat 9/5/2009

Destination: Oahu

Let's say your husband dies suddenly. Let's say you're in your mid-30s when it happens and let's say you also have three young children at the time. What you really want to do is crawl into bed and never get out, but you have these children. They need their mommy. They also need clothes to wear and food to eat. You decide the only thing you can do for your children is to show them that tragedy does not give one permission to live a small life.
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Hawaii Writers Conference. Day 1

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Fri 9/4/2009

Destination: Oahu

I've attended the Hawaii Writers Conference (formerly "Maui Writers Conference) four out of the past five years, and I can easily say this opening was the most powerful. I cried. I laughed. I stood with my mouth open, shaking my head, holding my hand to my heart.
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Hawaii's Summer Reading List

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Mon 6/15/2009

Destination: Hawaii Island

You know how it is with Facebook. You receive emails from people with whom you graduated from high school 25 years ago. You receive emails from people you don’t know but who fanned the same group as you. You receive emails from people who say they know someone in common with you. And they all want to be your friend. That’s how it was with Mia King. I didn’t know Mia King. I hadn’t ever met her before. In her email, she said that I knew a good friend of hers and I knew her husband. She was right. On both accounts.
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Preserving Hawaiian Culture on Big Island

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Wed 3/4/2009

Destination: Hawaii Island

Enjoy this video that we recently posted on OutriggerHawaii.com. If you watch it all the way through, the last few comments will make you ponder a few things. At least, they did for me.

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