Matthew Dekneef

I'm I'll buy a $20 bottle of wine years old now.

Wrote about some beautiful Hawaiians for @them.

Scarfing down a hamburger over the hood of my idling car between jobs while Dion plays on the radio

Solving Wordle in da club.

Naming themselves “developers” is an astounding PR strategy.

My first order of business as a gay Polynesian uncle is to not let my niece grow up thinking “Landslide” is an original song by Josh Tatofi. This island girl will know Stevie Nicks!!!

I’d rather tip housekeepers at hotels $75 then pay a cleaning fee to an airbnb host.

If I text you “🥭” it means my heart doing the tango

Hit a noseride on a long left just as a catamaran was passing by everyone aboard started cheering and I felt so embarrassingly cool 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@adamjk happy pride! 🏳️‍🌈

Summer so far; Patterns of abundance.

The 2022 Class of the CAPE New Writers Fellowship as follows (L-R | T-B) . . . ⭐Kiran Alamelu Subramaniam (@subrawoman) ⭐Kat Jiang (@KatJiang) ⭐Liz Fields (@lianzifields) ⭐Matthew DeKneef (@mattdknf) ⭐Kirk Damato (@kirksays) ⭐Sowmya Ashokkumar ⭐Sandra Hamada (@sandyhamada)

@adamjk she read your book 😂

Hawaiʻi stay evergreen

Local journalism thrives when the people in charge of it are personally invested in the community — and when those people understand that good journalism speaks truth to power regardless of who holds it. 7/

@KevinDayton808 Journal of David Samwell, the voyage's Welsh naval surgeon: "The chief who first struck Captain Cook with the club, was called Karimano-craha (Kalaimanokahoowaha*), but I did not know him by his name." *Was Kana‘ina's full inoa, as identified by Fornander.

Kana‘ina, the Hawaiian chief who struck the first blow to Capt. Cook on February 14, 1779. A ship’s journal recounts: “Kaneena [sic] especially, whose portrait Mr. Webber has drawn, was one of the finest men I ever saw.” Happy Valentine’s Day to this man.