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Rogue wasps and a cockroach the size of Texas (opens the original)
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Ever since a wasp flew into my mouth post hurricane and I spit it out, I’ve been noticing that many of the bugs that were always outside my home decided to take up residency inside my home. Imagine being that small and in tornados and 100 miles per hour winds, clinging to a tree that is about to fall.I went into my kitchen a few nights ago in the middle of the night to get water to take my evening vitamins and when I turned on the light, a cockroach the size of Texas ran across my bamboo floor,
Join us today for the Love of Breasts (opens the original)
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Aloha, and welcome to our new paid subscribers. So many of you are asking why you have to sign up for our For the Love of Breasts writing class today that is free for you as a paid subscriber. It’s so I can send you reminders and have facilitators ready to hear your story!We are writing today at 4 p.m. PST / 7 p.m. EST (that’s 1 p.m. Hawaii time)Registe… Read more
Taking a break from the hurricane (opens the original)
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Aloha, writers, today - Friday - in just under three hours at 4 p.m. PST / 7 p.m. EST (that’s 1 p.m. Hawaii time), I am taking a break from charging my head lanterns, my camping lanterns, filling my generator with gasoline and buying backup gasoline, from making sure all my laundry is finished and my orchids are brought into the house again in preparation for the next hurricane creeping our way across the Pacific toward Hawaii - to write with you about our breasts.If you need a break of any kind
Hurricane and Tornado Brain (opens the original)
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Aloha, and welcome to our new paid subscribers. A big thank you to all of you for supporting writing events and the wonderful stories by extraordinary writers in our community.As some of you may be aware, I have been in the aftermath of Hurricane Lowell and our writing even For the Love of Breasts was reschedule for this Friday, September 25th at 4 p.m.… Read more
What I Hear When I Listen (opens the original)
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The other day I wrote a Facebook post about hearing generators running at night post-Hurricane Lowell on the North Shore of Kauaʻi, and someone who lives near me wrote, I don’t hear generators at night.It was a minor comment, but not minor at all for me. It felt invalidating.It made me long for our next writing series in October, Beyond Knowing. In our writing community, we listen deeply to each other’s stories, told through metaphor, or told straight, or, as Emily Dickinson said, told “slant,”
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