October 2004 Archives

Seeing red, feeling blue

Okay, someone, anyone, everyone: what is UP with this and this?

I'm truly confused at how Gore won Hawaii by almost 18 points in 2000, yet according to a Ward poll, Bush has a slight (within the margin of error) led over Kerry here. Next someone's going to tell me Mike Gabbard leads Ed Case.

Introducing Our Daughter...

The Distant Dream of Home Ownership

Dreaming of home ownership in Hawai`i? Keep dreaming.

I'm on a Castle & Cooke mailing list which periodically delivers the current "deals" on new homes on the market.

Am I the only one who chokes when they see a single-family home going for easily over a half a mil?

With prices like $712,000, you'd think you'd be getting a beachfront home in Kahala -- not a 4-bedroom home in Mililani. Oh yeah, those Kahala homes easily demand well over a cool million. What am I thinking?

NaNo Turns Six

October brings us into the heart of fall, into a monthlong candy-anticipating froth for youngsters, and into the eve of NaNoWriMo, now in its sixth year. This worldwide exercise in frantic fiction has seized the imaginations of the HawaiiStories `ohana before (last year and the year before)... so who's playing this year?

If you're new to NaNo, read all about it. And this site remains ready and willing to help you share your wild writing works-in-progress with its NaNo-inspired HawaiiStories Fiction department.