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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

Lā Makuahine 2014 – Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Mokihana

My daughter Anela wondered if I’d like to go to Ridgefield for Mother’s Day.  Would I!  You betcha!  My other daughter, Leilani, was out of town, so Anela and I headed out just after noon on Saturday. She bought me … Continue reading →

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Especially for AFK

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Mokihana

I saw this video and immediately thought of you, AFK, my pīpī-loving sista.  Had to post it!  Enjoy!

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Montana Road Trip 2010, Part Nineteen

Posted on May 10, 2014 by Mokihana

Some of the photos from the Battle Ridge area are on my old cell phone.  I have to see if I can upload them here.  There was snow on the ground and I took them with my cell phone so … Continue reading →

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Moving Up In Da World

Posted on May 10, 2014 by Mokihana

At the encouragement from Ryan and Kerrie I got my own domain yesterday.  More geekiness, yeah?  Was kinda scary.  Moving from my blog.wordpress.com was just supposed to take “a few minutes”, WP said.  So I waited about five minutes and … Continue reading →

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Throwback Thursday Numbah One

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Mokihana

So on Facebook lots of people are doing “Throwback Thursday”, where they post photos of themselves from years past.  So I thought, watdaheck and decided to do it here.  No guarantees that I’ll remember to do it every week, but I’ll try. … Continue reading →

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Cone Sushi-Making Day 2009

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Mokihana

So back in February, 2009, my Gathering friends decided they’d like to have a sushi-making day.  Plenny times I’d bring cone sushi to our potlucks, and they loved it so much they wanted to learn how to make it themselves. … Continue reading →

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Montana Road Trip 2010, Chapter Eighteen

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Mokihana

Ho.  Weird.  My first real blog post ova hea.  We’ll see how it goes. Everything looks the same as on HawaiiStories, but somehow I feel just a bit unanchored.  Oh.  That’s not a word.  Too bad.  It’s how I feel. … Continue reading →

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Da bloggie wen holoholo ova hea.

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Mokihana

Big change.  HawaiiStories.com is undergoing a major facelift. Only Lika and I are left there, blogging away. Ryan will be creating something wonderful there, like stories from hanabata days, and more like a magazine kine ting, and although I could … Continue reading →

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Montana Road Trip 2010, Part Seventeen

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Mokihana

Back to Montana we go. Going get plenny ʻānuenue this time. The clouds were getting darker, but there was no rain.

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Montana Road Trip 2010, Part Sixteen

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Mokihana

K’den. Let’s continue da road trip, k? So, last time, we’d just stopped in Missoula at Starbucks and seen the license plate from Hawaiʻi. It was a very quick stop; we still had a long ways to go till Bozeman. … Continue reading →

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