KauaiEclectic

Even though I’m not in his House District, I contacted Rep. Jimmy Tokioka yesterday and asked him to support HB 1663 , which would place a m...

The sky was swirled with dark and light shades of gray, and the mountains were weighed down under a thick band of steel, when Koko and I wen...

Watching the Rocky Mountain News bite the dust on Friday gave me a little pang, and not just because it was the latest in a string of quali...

The civil union bill has been getting a lot of attention lately, both in the mainstream media and blogs, where Poinography’s Doug White wrot...

The world at 4 a.m. was silent, clear, calm and star-studded, but by 6 a.m. all celestial objects had disappeared, covered with thick, gray ...

After enduring some 12 hours of travel just to get here from Denver — and I didn’t even experience any delays like the eight-hour wait my se...

A train whistle is blowing as I write this, happily preparing to leave the land of $1.86 gas, cold winds and air so dry my eyes feel gritty ...

Well, my Mom's service is on Saturday, so I'm headed out to Denver tonight on the red eye, and not the crip kind. I never like those...

The crescent moon had its own little halo when Koko and I went walking this morning in temperatures so chilly that sheer will was required t...

It seems that truly, to borrow the words of “Pogo” cartoonist Walt Kelly, “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Us, as in the U.S., which i...

The moon was a perfect white half on a canvas of twinkling stars when Koko and I went walking this morning. Clouds shaped like running rabbi...

The moon, though shrinking fast, was still bright enough to trick me into thinking it was closer to day than night, which is why Koko and I ...

It started raining hard about midnight and the downpour leaked over into the day, breaking briefly for a golden haze at sunrise, then resumi...

Imagine a massive sunrise shell of sweeping silver clouds arrayed over a pasture so deep in mist it appears as thick snow in the moonlight. ...

Reports of a dead humpback whale calf washing up on a westside beach Monday afternoon have prompted more than a few people to ask: what’s u...

A few geometric patterns of light passed for sunrise in an otherwise cloudy, gray sky when Koko and I went walking this morning. She was fri...

Have you noticed how life is loving life? I’ve been wowed lately by a stunning profusion of flowers popping out all over on a clustered plan...

A friend and I were driving through Kapaa yesterday afternoon while the Super Bowl was being televised. It was like a ghost town, with virtu...

The sunrise is sort of like the Super Bowl — there’s the pre-pregame show, which in this case was all soft pink, followed by the pre-game sh...