March 2005 Archives

HawaiiStories Hui VI

It's almost been ten months since our last get together, and my, how things have changed! Our `ohana grew by leaps and bounds with the launch of sister site HawaiiThreads, and here at HawaiiStories we've said a few sad farewells but yet welcomed several new and wonderful storytellers into the fold. The time has most certainly come to log off and get out, if only for a moment, and catch up and eat up face to face.


Please join us on Saturday, April 2 for a casual, family-friendly pot luck gathering of great people who are even cooler in-person than they are online.

Paperclip

After reaching a distance of about two-hundred yards from my home, it dawned on me that I had forgotten to put a paperclip on my paper. Certainly a minor detail, but the kind of detail that some professors allow to annoy them. Not wanting to get on the bad side of the professor, my walk slowed and I asked myself if I wanted to return to the house to get a paperclip. No, I did not.

Lost

When I was a kid, I wandered away from my mom once. Okay, twice. I must've been really young the first time, as it's all quite hazy. We were at Longs at Pearlridge, I hadn't a care in the world, and suddenly, I was by myself. I got scared and cried, a nice lady took me somewhere in back, a "lost boy" page went out over the PA system, and I was quickly rescued.

The second time, I was definitely old enough to know better. Read on...