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 * Houston blog posts Pono does a little blogging while in Houston for Ahi's baseball tournament. Overall, they did all right, 3 wins, 1 loss. Their one loss was to the eventual tourney champions, Los Angeles.

Kona Village animoto media type="custom" key="906065"** We helped to celebrate mom and dad's 30th wedding anniversary with lunch at Kona Village and Jae got Ahi and Becky on the stand up paddleboards for a quick lesson on falling and barely standing. Things Only Dad Can Do** (for dad on Father's Day)
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When it's your turn to learn how to drive, don't call mom only dad will do. Mom will get frantic, she'll start to press her foot down on her imaginary brake her hands will hold onto the side of the door as if she's readying herself for the impact. Dad will stay calm his voice won't start rising hysterically he will continue to talk quietly to you he'll coach you through.

When you don't know how to do something whether it's changing a tire, fixing a window, building a shelf or balancing your checkbook don't call mom, she'll do exactly what you should have done she'll call dad because these are things only dad can do.

When you've been disappointed and you need a shoulder to cry on, when someone breaks your heart and you feel like your world is coming apart only dad will do

only dad will do.

Hello, My Name Is. . . Cathy, not Katherine, like Katherine the great, or Kathleen, like, I don't know, Kathleen from down the street. I'm Cathy. . . nothing fancy - plain- that's what my parents chose for me. Nothing elegant, like that French actress, Catherine Deneuve. I'm actually named after my mom's boss. When you have a child at 18, I guess your list of adults to look up to doesn't extend very far, at least not in small town Lahaina. Maybe my name is plain because my mother's name is not. Muriel. Muriel, the gaelic form of muirgheal, bright sea. Try being a tita from the red dirt fields of Lahaina with a name like Muriel, even my grandma couldn't pronounce her own daughter's name. Muriel, became Merle. Didn't she think that grandma wouldn't be able to say my name either? "Grandma, it's CaTHy, not CaT Tea." Cathy, my namesake was the head of housekeeping for Royal Lahaina Hotel, so I'm named after Cathy, head of the maids. Wow! I thought parents were supposed to have big dreams for their kids? Like when Michael Jordan was in his prime, there were lots of boys named Jordan. Why couldn't I be named after a movie star, Katherine (like Hepburn, who can become Kate)? What about a world leader? Indira or Margaret, or Grace? What about a literary figure? My mother loved to read in between working at the pineapple fields and cleaning rooms at the hotel. Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird would have been fine. . . but Cathy?

Hello. . .my name is Cathy, head of housekeeping.

Muriel aka Merle Written for an advanced writing institute, summer of 08. I was taking class at the university and teaching a creative writing class for middle schoolers simultaneously. It was a hectic 2 weeks.