Today is Release Day for the Illustrated edition of Wolf at First Sight by Rhys Ford! Now available on Amazon and other online bookstores! 10 illustrations by Emily Y. Chan.

https://www.amazon.com/Wolf-First-Sight-Monster-Dads-ebook/dp/B0C3JQR4N2/

Grab the “sibling” releases…
Elf Shot by TA Moore
https://www.amazon.com/Elf-Shot-Monster-Dads-Moore-ebook/dp/B0C3J7BZNC/

And Monster Hall Pass by Bru Baker

https://www.amazon.com/Monster-Hall-Pass-Dads-ebook/dp/B0C3J6FYP5/

Angus Missouri Blue aka The Potato has joined his brothers living across the Bifröst. He was the best of puppers and a delight to love. If you ever had the pleasure of meeting him, please know he carried you in his heart and never forgot you. Literally remembered everyone he ever met and was glad to see them.

Thank you for celebrating his life with me and I am so glad you all got to know him. He was a very beloved good pupper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcQXp1FAx5c

Damn this boy goes hard. Seriously, my favourite.

 

 

It goes both ways… colorism. I’ve been told I’m too “pale” to be Hawaiian, despite very Hawaiian. Enough to attend and graduate Kamehameha Schools. But yes, I also agree Nani shouldn’t be scrubbed lighter. She is kanaka. And looks it.

But we as Hawaiians also need to have those hard discussions about gatekeeping, color, and what is cultural appropriation vs appreciation. The US overthrow of our Kingdom threatened our people’s language and culture, leading to things like grass skirt costumes and Elvis’ movies.

And even knowing all that, my own mother asked a friend I’d brought with me to visit the Big Island if he’d met a Hawaiian before he’d met my Dad 2.0. He replied; just the one that brought me. And my own mother said, Doesn’t count. Doesn’t look Hawaiian enough.

She isn’t the first one to say that. We code switch, pidgin to “proper English” both are valid. We need to fight for our culture, language and people. All of them. But yeah, Nani should be as she is drawn because she IS who we are. I’m still wondering why David wasn’t Kawika.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/23/entertainment/lilo-and-stitch-live-action-colorism-cec/index.html

 

You know…. I never thought about what would go into performing this piece live.

I absolutely love his work. So gorgeous. So smooth. Massive shout out to Julian Johnson-Mortimer.

 

Well, long story short… last Friday I ended up in the ER with a swollen face and was admitted to the hospital for MRSA and another resistant infection name I can’t recall off the top of my head. I came home today, ate some food and crashed.

Seriously, I’m begining to think I need my own room or something there. Or at least tattoo my vitals QR code to my wrist.

I’ve got a lot to catch up on, including what I was writing. Hope you all are doing well and if you’re in the rainy weather like I am, you’re staying dry.

This is so interesting. Would you trust an AI app to tell you what to cook?