KauaiEclectic

One thing I love about my new house is the skylights in each room, because they bring the outdoors in. As I’m writing this, I can glance up ...

The crickets were still chirping and a few random stars were out when Koko and I went walking this morning. Soon, though, they gave way to b...

In reading the comments that have been posted about the bike path the past few days, I was struck in particular by one that noted: folks for...

The sky was thick with stars, two of them falling, when Koko and I went walking this morning, my eyes trained upwards, feet left to find the...

The sky was smudged burnt orange when Koko and I went out walking this morning, the third in our new/old neighborhood. It felt so good to se...

The sweet crescent moon was the highlight of last night’s sky, where I saw rising in the east the constellations that this morning were sett...

Koko and I almost saw the sun rise when we went walking this morning. It’s not that we haven’t been out lately, it’s just that we haven’t be...

The stars, brilliant last night, remained so this morning when Koko and I went walking a good two hours before dawn. Orion, Makalii and Tri...

The rain fell with an intensity yesterday that I have rarely seen, and regular calls exchanged with a friend in Hanalei confirmed that condi...

It wasn’t a night conducive to sleeping, especially since a trembling Koko spent much of it panting in my ear. Outside, the rain fell in tor...

The roar of the surf woke me in the night, and again this morning, and it accompanied us a far ways mauka when Koko and I went walking, skir...

The rain came in the night, several times, and drummed on the roof and poured from the eaves, but it was gone — although promising to return...

Interesting, how tens of thousands of people can gather for a protest in Okinawa against the expansion of the American military presence the...

The dog that lives across the street from me spends much of its life in a squealing, yipping, futile pursuit of attention. When its master, ...

Sitting down at the beach late yesterday afternoon, dampened by a fine misting rain that felt colder than it really was because it was deliv...

The moon began wearing a halo when the sky turned from black to blue as Koko and I went walking this morning. Peachy puffs floated past on t...

I'll be on KKCR from 4 to 6 pm today with Jimmy Trujillo and my friend Ka`imi Hermosura, discussing a wide range of issues. It's the...

The stars were bright, and so was the moon, when Koko and I went walking in a morning that was delightfully crisp and fresh and cool — weath...

Koko and I were just about to head out into the darkness when a big rain came, so she went back to bed and I drank tea and worked until it s...

The moon, just hours from fullness, fell into a puffy black pile atop Makaleha and was lost, a silvery gilting the only trace of her presenc...