A man and a woman sat across from each other at a corner table in a small neighborhood restaurant. Each one held a script and studied it, not speaking or looking [...]
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In celebration of the release of The Polynesian Tattoo Today by Tricia Allen Barnes & Noble Ala Moana is hosting a TATTOO CONTEST (open to the public) Saturday, April 24 • 8-10 pm Enter in any one of four [...]
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If I watch one more rerun of Seinfeld I swear I’m going to turn into one of the characters. I think I’ll be Jerry.  He seems the least neurotic.  Kramer is the happiest in the group, but being Cosmo Kramer would be risky business most days.

George and Elaine? Really? Don’t even go there, although the time that Elaine got to be boss for a while and talked on the phone while she smoked a cigar with her feet up on the desk is memorable.

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Our guest blogger today is New York Times bestselling author and Kauai resident Jill Marie Landis.  Welcome, Jill! --------------------------------------- After reading Michael' [...]
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You'll have your own list of things you did during the tsunami warning in Hawaii last Saturday, but here's my list of things I did not do. See if [...]
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Here’s the third question that helps us understand how readers and writers connect.  Earlier we looked at the connecting power of humor and laughter, as well as a common concern by readers and writers for characters in pain.

Now we come to poison and dying, and at a time like this I wish I were a mystery writer.  Agatha Christie loved to kick off her mysteries with a good old-fashioned poisoning.  Her 80 mystery novels have sold about four billion copies in 45 languages. They say that everybody loves a good mystery, and apparently everybody also loves a good poisoning.

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