Ala Moana hotel (Honolulu) was nice to stay at; easy to walk to the Magic Island beach and the Ala Moana park, with a giant (fairly high-end) mall right next door. For a business traveller, who might want to pick up, say, a pair of shoes that aren’t grotty old sneakers that she only packed […]
Thursday night, Subramanian Shankar and Cynthia Franklin (University of Hawai’i English professors) took me out for delicious salad and pizza. The Funghi pizza was perfection. Not sure of the name of the restaurant — something with Brick in its name, I think! Sorry! Honolulu.
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“…they justify destroying the reef with a dredged artificial beach and call it, ’for the keiki’ — the children. The tourist children, of course. It’s all a matter of perspective.” — from “The Bluest Angel,” by Don Wallace, _Snaring New Suns: Speculative Works from Hawai’i and Beyond, edited by Tom Gammarino, Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada, D.
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Honolulu, walking to Ala Moana Park. I wasn’t sure my recovering sprained ankle would be up to the walk on Thursday morning, but it was okay. A little sore, but manageable — it helped that there were paved paths all the way, including circling the park, as walking around on grass and such for long
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Had a lovely dinner on Wednesday (yes, I’m a little behind with the travel blogging) with Subramanian Shankar, Shawna Yang Ryan, and several other University of Hawai’i folks at Maile’s Thai — three hours of great food, drink, and conversation! I had the ‘Evil Princess’ curry, which was delicious, but now I don’t know why
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Whew. I’ve had something like six hours of tech troubleshooting in the last two days, and I was so frustrated at one point that I actually got teary. I’m going to spare you all the saga — the SHORT VERSION of it is that my laptop’s display is deader than dead. It’s still under warranty,
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Had a wonderful time this evening talking about my work at The University of Hawai’i — thanks to Shawna Yang Ryan and Subramanian Shankar for being such lovely hosts…
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Little bits of shopping — guava bread and sweet Maui onion rings, a sign reminding Hawai’i residents that they can claim a discount at the giant fancy mall (good), and a really cool giant book backdrop at some random clothing store. Let’s just put giant books everywhere, okay?
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I taught my workshop at the University of Hawai’i, and then met with some of their creative writing doctoral students for a few hours. My host, Shawna Yang Ryan, greeted me with this tuberose and rose lei, which smells amazing. I’m reading one of her novels, now, Green Island, and it is very good, but
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