Hawaiian Phrase of the Week: Na ho'omaka hou

Hawaiian Phrase of the Week: Na ho'omaka hou

Now that we are a few days into the new year, I keep hearing more and more about everyone’s ‘new year’s resolutions’. I personally have never been able to keep a resolution past the first two weeks of the year so I have shifted my thinking to consider this time of year as an opportunity for new beginnings, or nā ho’omaka hou (pronounced: na-ah hoh-mah-kah ho) in Hawaiian.

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Hawaiian Phrase of the Week: Hau'oli Makahiki hou

Hawaiian Phrase of the Week: Hau'oli Makahiki hou

This time of  year is always so interesting…just as we almost recover from the Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa celebrations, we do it all over again as we ready to flip the calendar to the new year.

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