Pau Hana

Pau Hana stories published in Maui Nō Ka ʻOi Magazine.

Maui nanny

Confessions of a Hotel Nanny

A nanny never knows whether she’ll spend her time coddling a cranky baby, playing Fish with a four-year-old, or reading a novel on an ocean-view terrace while her charge takes a nap.
maui real estate

Unreal Estate

It was time to purchase a home, but being dumped into Maui’s real estate market is like being dropped into the Pacific Ocean during hurricane season with nothing but a rubber-ducky tube.
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Do What?

Jack Hagarty recently spent three days as an extra on Adam Sandler’s new romantic comedy Just Go with It, filmed in part on the beach at the Maui Grand Wailea Resort, and also starring Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Aniston.

Beam me up, Dude

Tales of treks through Haleakala Crater.
got poi

Home Is Where the Poi Is

A Got Poi? bumper sticker becomes the catalyst for a surprising discovery by a homesick Maui native in the Sunshine State.
lava church

Under the Volcano

Pele makes the land; Pele takes the land away.

On the Trail of a Saint

Feflections on Father Damien's sainthood.

The Wreck of the Royal T. Frank

The untold story of how the people of Hana helped rescue survivors of the Royal T. Frank, sunk by a Japanese torpedo after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
maui cruisers

What Goes Around

Find our how the writer's brown Nissan ended up with blue doors, blue hood, blue hatch and blue gas-cap cover.
kahului airport

Terminal Nostalgia

Mauians and longtime visitors may recall sleepier versions of the Kahului airport.
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The Monarch of the Midway

People once called E.K. Fernandez the Barnum of the Pacific, but he was beyond compare, a Hawaiian original.
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Shaken and Stirred

I was jostled awake by what I at first thought was a herd of Upcountry cattle rampaging through my living quarters.

Shut up and Paddle

On Maui, yearly distance races send paddlers past rugged Kahakuloa, along the colorful Lahaina Pali, and down the scenic East Maui coast.
Rubbah Slippah

Rubbah Sleepahs

In Hawai‘i, they’re everywhere...
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Eh, Who Dat Ovah Deah?

As Maui moves into the twenty-first century, the unassuming nicknames of the past will likely evolve to suit our more frenetic and capitalistic times.
Hawaiian tourist

Is that Legal?

One writer recounts the humorous scenario experienced by two tourists—in the lobby of Kaanapali Beach Hotel—while visiting during Makahiki Season.

Ode to Spring: a Draft

Right now it’s spring on Maui. Hold onto your hats!

Wherefore Art?

In big-city academic circles, this school is called “recycled,” “commodified” or “found object” art. Here on Maui, it’s usually just a case of somebody with too many old surfboards.

The Opposite Attraction

Being willing to consider the opposite might just teach you a thing or two about yourself.
powerless

Powerless

I’d been struggling with my column for hours, and had only managed to toss off a few brilliant bon mots when without so much as a flicker of warning the power went out.

Surf’s Up!

Hawaiian winters show themselves in big surf and salty windshields. Look out!
things go bump

Things that go bump…

When it comes to renting, possesion is everything.
non traditional maui homes

When a Home Is not a House

Maui folks have been known to live quite happily in trees, caves, yurts, teepees, tack sheds, camper vans and Matson containers.
pau hana

Pau Hana

Loli-Oop!
trash

One Man’s Trash . . .

Reduce, reuse, recycle!