Category: Frankie Bow

Author interview today on Pat Bertram’s site. Pat is the acclaimed author of Light Bringer, Daughter Am I, More Deaths Than One, and A Spark of Heavenly Fire.

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March 14, 2015

Shocking news for anyone who went to high school somewhere other than Planet Earth #NoWayDude

Marijuana use could explain excessive daytime sleepiness in some teens –Medical News Today.

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March 13, 2015

Yes, I do need that extra thirty minutes of sleep. #Science

And so do you. Losing just 30 minutes of sleep per day may promote weight gain and adversely affect blood sugar control — ScienceDaily.

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March 12, 2015

we often over-estimate medicine

But exercise, diet, sanitation and vaccination are BO-ring!

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March 11, 2015

Amazing Marketing Secrets: The two-for-the-price-of-a-half Quantity Discount

OK, first of all, I still don’t know why people who view The Musubi Murder are also interested in banana slicers and butter warmers, rather than, I don’t know, other murder mysteries?

But second of all, what is this marketing wizardry? People will pay extra not to have two banana slicers in the house?

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March 10, 2015

Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat

“Sorry, Miss Pfaff, I didn’t mean to gush. But I do love Alice Mongoose!”

“It’s true,” Emma said. “Molly’s a huge fangirl. She wore her Alice the Mongoose t-shirt till it got all full of pukas, and now she sleeps in it.”

“It’s Alice Mongoose, Emma, not Alice the Mongoose. It’s not Peter the Rabbit, right?”

Marshall murmured something and steered Miss Dorothy Pfaff away from us and toward a canapé-bearing waiter.

–The Invasive Species

With her hatbox and steamer trunk all packed and her employment letter in hand, Alice Mongoose was looking forward to her first grownup job on a Hamakua sugar plantation. Imagine her shock when she learned that her job was to kill rats!

Alice was not a killer. She knew that this was not the job for her. She disembarked and, carrying her hatbox and dragging her steamer trunk, went to look for a place to stay.

The first friendly creature she met was Alistair Rat. Fortunately, Alistair was nearsighted and too vain to wear spectacles, so he did not realize that Alice was a mongoose. Rather than run away in terror, Alistair invited Alice in for tea.

Alice Mongoose and Alistair Rat became neighbors and best friends, and had adventures together on the Hamakua Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii.

March 8, 2015

Criminals and TV networks hate this one weird trick #DST

Because we are close to the equator, our daylight hours don’t vary much. Honolulu has less than a three hour difference between the longest and the shortest day of the year. Because of this, someone decided that it’s not worth the effort for us to reset our clocks every six months. We don’t observe daylight savings time in Hawaii. (Neither do Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, or Arizona).

That doesn’t mean that we can ignore the time changes, of course. We have friends, family and colleagues on the mainland, and it won’t do to accidentally ring someone up at eleven p.m. when you meant to call at ten.

Changing clocks and keeping track of time differences is a hassle. And getting out of work only to drive home in the dark is depressing. Crime drops during daylight savings months, as criminals prefer to operate in the dark. Golf courses and other outdoor recreational facilities benefit from the extra hour of evening light. So why not make daylight savings time permanent?

Well, for one thing, morning light is good for us. And television networks don’t like DST. People tend to go outside when it’s light, and stay in and watch TV when it’s dark out. (Of course Netflix and other digital options mean that this might be the least of the networks’ problems.)