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About Mokihana

Born and raised Hawaiʻi girl who misses home and loves the Pacific Northwest. I’m a free spirit and love the serendipitous events that bring people and places together. My philosophy about knitting and life in general: “It is good to have an end to journey toward,but it is the journey that matters in the end.”Ursula K. Le Guin

Talking Stories

Posted on March 20, 2020 by Mokihana

Today Nolemana and I went out to New Seasons to do a massive shopping to last us for awhile. They’re being so good about keeping things sanitized and we felt more comfortable going there than to the bigger stores. Everyone … Continue reading →

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CV-19 and Stuffs

Posted on March 19, 2020 by Mokihana

I have no excuse now for not writing more. Because of CV-19, we’re not going anywhere much. Not that I want to. I’m not going to the gym…even though it’s easy to stay 6′ away from people, I have been … Continue reading →

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A Year Ago Yesterday…

Posted on January 24, 2020 by Mokihana

…we drove up to Salmon Creek Hospital in Vancouver at dark-thirty for my second knee surgery. This is crossing the Columbia River at 5:00 a.m. I was amazed at how much traffic there was at this early hour.

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Da Kine Numbah Eight

Posted on January 18, 2020 by Mokihana

I’m trying hard to keep up with taking a photo a day for 365 days again; I pretty well fell off the wagon doing it last year along about September.  So some of what I’ve done this year will be … Continue reading →

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Montana Road Trip 2010, Chapter Forty-eight

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Mokihana

Hilahila au to da max. No can believe I’ve ignored my poor litto bloggie for so long. In many ways, it’s been a really difficult year, but I gotta pau this road trip! The last time I wrote was back … Continue reading →

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A Heartwarming Beginning to the New Year

Posted on January 1, 2020 by Mokihana

Nolemana and I were on our way to the gym yesterday, and stopped at a red light at Burnside/Division  (four lanes plus turning lanes each street) heading northwest. Traffic was very heavy. I was about 3 cars back from the … Continue reading →

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Stories, Number Four

Posted on November 7, 2019 by Mokihana

Well, for this story, I’m going to re-blog a post I wrote ‘way back in 2005, and all in pidgin. Cuz no can write stories about hanabata days in Hawaiʻi without getting da pidgin in dea, yeah? No ask me … Continue reading →

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Autumn Colors

Posted on October 10, 2019 by Mokihana

This year it looks like we’ve gone from summer to winter…no warm temps in the 70’s as usual, as it’s been for years and years. Nope. There hasn’t been any in-between season marking the end of warm and hot days … Continue reading →

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Pīpī Faces

Posted on September 21, 2019 by Mokihana

As I was driving along a road on the other side of the hill from us, I saw these pīpī faces and just had to stop and photograph them for AFK. I especially love the one with the black spots … Continue reading →

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Da Kine Numba Seven

Posted on September 2, 2019 by Mokihana

Sunflowers in da horse trough:

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