Category: On the Move

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A Painful, Mysterious Infection

Pop quiz: What caused the big, red, swollen bump on my right thigh pictured here? A) spider bite B) pimple C) bee sting D) nobody knows Answer: D We all have our good weeks and then we have our bad weeks. Two weeks ago my best friend got married awesome! Then, my gung gung passed [...]

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High School Bodybuilders Amaze

Safe and Drug Free School and Olomana School present the 10th annual Hawaii High School Bench Press Contest and the Mr. and Miss High School Body Building Championships March 9 at the Ward Warehouse stage. “Our goal is to give kids an opportunity to showcase what they can do,” says event creator Daniel Suzuki, teacher [...]

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The Gift Of Life Through Marrow

In 1996 Scott Kikiloi was among the more than 30,000 people (including myself) who joined the National Marrow Donor Program through the Hawaii Bone Marrow Donor Registry in hopes of being a match for a little girl named Alana Dung, who was battling leukemia. He was not a match for her, but 13 years later, [...]

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How Momoa Morphed Into Conan

If you didn’t make it to a theater to see local boy Jason Momoa as the new Conan the Barbarian, which released on Friday, chances are you at least have seen pictures of the actor and his ultra buff physique. He already had a great body from his days on Baywatch Hawaii a decade ago, [...]

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Wellness Monitoring For The Elderly

Like many families today, Aileen Soma is concerned about the welfare of her aging mother Haruko, 84. But because of work and family responsibilities. Aileen can’t be with her 24 hours a day. So when she heard about Hookele’s iHealthHome, a new touch-screen communication and wellness monitoring system, Aileen decided to give it a try. [...]