What s Working, What s Failed and What Needs to be Done to Fix The Decades-Old Problem of Job Shortages?
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HONOLULU Magazine Earns 13 Awards in 2021
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or the first seven months working from home, I was surrounded by my failures. We had set up a makeshift office in our loft, which over the years had come to resemble an oversized junk drawer. My chair faced a pile of boxes filled with clothes and books my girls had outgrown, holiday decorations and kids crafts with bags of yet-to-be shredded bills teetering on top. The nearby futon couch was buried under old toys and myriad items that had been stashed upstairs during family parties and never taken back down. Everywhere I looked, I saw something that I had neglected to organize, donate or toss. It stressed me out until we finally cleared the room, bought new furniture and set up storage. The framed family photos that replaced the clutter in front of me have done wonders for my mood.
The 2020 Sour Poi Awards Present: The Day That Never Ends
Tales of weird, wacky and wild news you may have missed. The best of the worst of 2020.
January 29, 2021
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onsider 2020. Someday we may look back on the year as a long, strange trip that ultimately brought us something positive. But not yet! It’s too soon to come to terms with a year that feels like a mix of Groundhog Day and a vintage horror movie we would call The Day That Never Ends. First came hoarding of rice, Spam, toilet paper, then shortages of yeast, hand weights, potting soil, even kiddie pools. Our lives reeled with pandemic lockdowns, distance learning and an ever-shifting new normal, bookended by doom-scrolling on phones and endless Zoom meetings. So, in keeping with the off-kilter nature of a calendar year we’re happy to close, we present the latest edition of HONOLULU Magazine’s Sour Poi Awards. Here, we focus on news that’s sure to make us roll our eyes. Yes, we obsessed over COVID-19, but governmen