Author: Ryan Kawailani Ozawa

It’s all about baby pictures for now. I’ll keep posting quickies from my phone, and catch up when I can in the gallery. I couldn’t resist making a quick video clip of his arrival...

Less than twelve hours from now, we’ll have a new member of the family. My mind continues to swirl with thoughts and feelings I wish I could find the time to set down, but...

With deep thinking like this, the passage of the Akaka Bill is the least of the Native Hawaiians’ worries. Question: “What do you think tribal sovereignty means in the 21st century, and how do...

Six days. Less than that. So much to say, but so much more to do. Been baby shopping, replacing all the stuff we gave away or sold after Zac, back when Zac was The...

“Everyone knows someone affected by heart disease or stroke. For those I love, I will be walking in this year’s American Heart Walk. I have set a personal goal to raise funds for the...

Jen’s 10th Anniversary iPod. Born March 27, 2004… died July 12, 2004. Alas, the smooth plastic device my wife adored more than her husband (shut up!) had a tragic fall this morning, and — rather...

An odd story (with a neat photo and a happy ending) out of East O`ahu: SUV takes plunge in Hawai’i Kai.

The folks at Salon published a story this week on the professor of smoochology (ad-based access alert!), which, in their words, explains “how a nebbishy ex-academic who keeps changing his name wound up traveling...

The Goddess Speaks: “Oh, Chinese stick fortune. Yin-yang fortune sticks, to be more precise. I decided to ask for a reading, because despite the fact that a Ouija card game once predicted that at...

From the “questions you didn’t know you wanted the answer to but are glad someone asked” department: When the zombies take over, how long till the electricity fails? Way more information than you probably...

Once again, Burt waxes about a tech topic dear to my heart in his weekly Bytemarks column: Google’s still-in-testing Gmail service. As a former EFF member and EPIC supporter, how could I surrender my...

The folks at Hawaii Public Radio like to talk about “driveway moments” — times when you’re listening to something so great, you find yourself just sitting in your car in your driveway just to hear...

Yet another entry in the Annals of Dumb Customer Service, this one from United Airlines. My request? “What is my Mileage Plus account number?” Their response? “Thank you for contacting us. To obtain your...

The smelly, algae-filled “reflecting pools” at the Hawaii State Capitol have been a longtime source of frustrated and disgusted commentary, but now the disgusting wet mess has hit the big time. Tomorrow’s New York...

A whole lot of wacky stuff went down in our neighborhood yesterday. Carjackings, gunfire, injured feet. I mean, our apartment is smack dab in the middle of the Honolulu Advertiser‘s helpful infographic map of...

One of my family’s most cherished documents is a 1962 article in the Honolulu Advertiser profiling my grandmother. While it just happened to be written during the brief period she was married to her...

From the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, May 17, 2004: “Irene Caitano Henderson – May 13, 2004 – Irene Caitano Henderson, 86, of Mililani, an Ilani’s Express Service owner in Kohala, Hawaii, died in St. Francis-West Hospice. She was...

Seeing as how, you know, I figured I wasn’t neglecting enough websites already, I’ve blown a good chunk of the last couple of weeks building another one. It’s one of those fancy message boards,...

Nifty! Facial pattern matching software plus a database of celebrity faces equals “who you look like… if the person looking at you is very drunk and very lonely.” Jen found the site, and sent...

Dear Governor Lingle: I know you are an advocate of the public charter school system, and I hope my fellow charter school parents and I can count on you to make sure it gets...