Breastfeeding: Live and Let Suck

By feature contributor Ms. Reef Rash
For the most part, I appreciated the article by Cecil Adams (“The Straight Dope”, May 5-18, which appeared in the Hawai’i Island Journal … and is published in many alternative weekly papers around the country) in favor of breastfeeding for healthier babies, but I couldn’t stop myself from focusing [...]

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How to Get Surfer Girl Hair

With search engines leading people who are trying to get “Surfer Girl Hair” to my article essentially detailing how to avoid it (“Secret Hair Tips for the Surfer Girl”), I decided I might as well publish my own recipe for the look. Likely a “How To” appeared on some trendy web site inflicting fads on [...]

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Coffee Lovers: The Ultimate Coconut Mocha Recipe

You or your loved one enjoy a mocha in the morning? Ready to score some points while saving some of the excess cash you’re spending for your “specialty” coffee at the local coffeehouse? Instead, maybe it’s time to use that money towards creating your own quality coffeehouse right in your kitchen. Here’s a recipe to [...]

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Point Break 2: Young, Dumb and…More Surf Movies to Cum

You know, before Gidget came out in the late ’50s, there were supposedly only 5,000 surfers in the world. With that and the beach blanket bingo era to follow, by 1962 it’s been estimated a whopping 100,000 took to the waves. Today how many might there be? Millions?
My first bit of interest in surfing came [...]

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Are You Unknowingly Poisoning Your Dog?

Though animals of all smells tug at my heart-strings, I am officially one of those cat-people who one day turned into a dog-lover; even the title Coconut Girl being a dedication to my girl dog, who looks absolutely ridiculous running around the beach with a coconut twice the size of her head clutched in her [...]

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No Bad Kitty: The Secret of Negative Thinking

I’m housesitting. It’s a nice and needed respite because I’ve been living in a tent in a rat infested plantation house with termites to the extent that every once in a while you notice the wall crumbling to dust. Despite the sound of it, I am forever grateful to my friend for making his home [...]

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The Benefits of Food Poisoning…no really!

The other day, this guy mentioned how he’s had food poisoning twice in his life and how awful it was. He was going through the gory details as if he thought maybe I wouldn’t understand. All I was thinking was, twice in your life?! You’re so lucky! I’ve probably had it twice in the past [...]

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My Apple, My Surfboard, My Bendable, Mutable Life

I’d been enjoying some extra bed time while getting over a bug, when I had this annoying nightmare. In it my MacBook was catching viruses off the internet. Could have been guilty download conscious, but I balance out such thievery with the reality that I wouldn’t buy any music even if I didn’t get it [...]

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Free Tibet? What About Free Hawai’i?!

“I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.” -Dalai Lama
Local man Riki Pestana-Torres has been trying to find hope in what he considers dark days for Hawai’ians. He has been protesting for Hawai’ian sovereignty since the late 1960s. Maui residents may be familiar [...]

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