Ah, the holidays. Travel, family and over the top meals. Every year I try to tell myself I’ll stick to just one plate of food at Thanksgiving dinner. Two rounds of gravy-smothered mashed potatoes later and the next thing I know I’m waking up from a turkey...
Despite having a seemingly endless summer, Hawaii does experience seasons. It’s not just those associated with the visitor industry, such as Holiday Season or Spring Break. The season those who live in Hawaii think of is more unpredictable—Hurricane Season....
Catholic Saints are practically innumerable. There are over 10,000 people that have been canonized as saints, but only two are directly associated with Hawai‘i—Marianne Cope and Joseph de Vuester a.k.a. Father Damien. May 10th marks the celebration of Saint Damien,...
May is the start of Invasive Species Awareness Month in Hawai‘i. While recognizing this issue as an “awareness month” is in its eighth year, invasive species have been a problem for much longer than that. The isolated evolution of the plants and animals...
We’re only into the second week of the 2025 and we’ve already had some spectacular activity from the volcano on the island of Hawai‘i. This most recent eruption arrived as an early Christmas present on December 23rd, 2024. And it really made an entrance....
