Yes, its snowing on Mauna Kea, on the Big Island of Hawaii…now!  I was going to embed a video from the Mauna Kea Observatory, but the video cameras are frozen over, so instead, I’m going to send you to the National Parks of the Pacific website and you can see the pics they have posted […]

A question was asked on Yahoo Answers by a lady who wanted to know how to figure out exactly how much her room, tours, and groceries would cost her.  She was confused because she saw a figure of 13.42% being used (which I still don’t know what that would have been for), […]

I’m not sure many of the current generation has ever had just a plain old musubi…you know, a rice ball!  I remember many a picnic where my grandmother would make these rice balls, usually with an ume (pickled dried plum) tucked in the center and a strip of dried nori wrapped around the outside.
She would […]

If you’ve spent much time in Hawaii, then you already know that the locals are very superstitious people.  Many malihinis (newcomers) scoff at some of the Hawaiian superstitions and stories that are told of strange happenings…until they experience them themselves.
Oh, I’m not referring to the hundreds of people who have returned lava rocks and black […]