by toby | Jul 24, 2010 | Life
Driving in the car today, my son said, “Mom. You grew up here. How are you so haole? I mean I think you’d blend more.” Blend? With this hair and skin, in a place where brown is better? I don’t even try. “I know enough not to try to be something I’m not,” I said. “But...
by toby | Jul 23, 2010 | Life
We have rats. They came to my bumper crop of lilikoi (passion fruit) this summer from wherever rats come from—other people’s houses, the sugarcane fields, drawn by the music of the Rat Fairy, multiplying like Tribbles. The only good thing about this infestation is...
by toby | Jul 21, 2010 | Life
She stumbled toward the water, laden like a camel in the Sahara with scuba apparatus. Sweat beaded forehead, trickled down spine, puddled in the claustrophobic carapace over the constricting suit. Her back bowed under the weight of steel and rubber as she staggered...
by toby | Jul 17, 2010 | Life
Guest Blog by Tawny Neal, Cellular/Molecular Biology Major and Intern I’m back from the misty jungle, tired and dirty but pleased. After a long week in another world, the return to civilization is jarring. It is one of the most astonishing things I’ve ever...
by toby | Jul 14, 2010 | Life
Rainbows Super cheesy topic folks. I want to preface the following remarks with the explanation that I was, indeed, a child who believed in fairies, unicorns, spirits and menehunes. Not Santa though—we didn’t do Santa. But we loved rainbows in our family, and...