It’s almost Opening Day 2010, and the Cubs’ starting rotation has been set: Zambrano, Dempster, Wells, Silva, Gorzelanny.
Are you excited? Can you feel the injuries already? Woo hoo!

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I didn’t realize that I’d completely neglected to do a Kona post . . . which is particularly unfortunate since my experiences there are about to be eclipsed by our upcoming trip to Boston. So, here goes:
A couple of weeks ago, we made our way over to the Big Island for three days of R&R [...]

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Just took the 9-year-old niece to see “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” at Koko Marina. Guess how much it cost us for tickets alone. SEVENTEEN DOLLARS. If things had cost this much when I was that age, there’s no way our family of four could’ve gone to the movies every Sunday.
We could’ve caught up on [...]

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As someone who works in public health, I am thrilled that health care reform has been signed into law. Do I understand it all? No. Do I expect everyone to be happy? No. But there is one thing I do expect, regardless of anyone’s political beliefs:
Respect. Respect for the process. Respect for people. Just plain [...]

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If you know me at all, you know one of the main reasons I’m not skinny is because I LOVE CHEESE. So, needless to say, when Whole Foods Market announced this nationwide event for February 27, I was drooling:

Of course, as fate would have it, February 27, 2010 was the day we in Hawai‘i experienced [...]

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