Status Updates From This Is Paradise: Stories

Understand that your grandmother is in heaven now, and heaven has fighting cocks and Heineken, poi and dried ahi, your uncles' teasing and your aunties' cooking and your cousins laughing with you when you talk. Heaven is them acting like this is where you belong, and if that's what haole pastors call hell, then thank God you finally got here.

In honor of my mo’olelo Hawai’i class coming to an end 3

Never would have dreamed that a story about bird fighting could have had me so invested!

I love that the stories are written by, and focus on a Native Hawai'in perspective.