He Can’t Have Those Feelings In Hawaii

Navigating hard things on vacation.

Mandy Osterhaus Ream
Be Unique
Published in
6 min readJul 24, 2021

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Photo by the Author.

We were visiting the Big Island of Hawaii for the first time, in the middle of our week vacation, and I was angry at my son for having feelings.

More specifically, that he was having very particular feelings I didn’t like while we sat in a restaurant beside the beautiful Magic Sands beach in Kona, Hawaii. Below…

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Mandy Osterhaus Ream
Be Unique

Part-time professor. Full-time woman in middle age. Happiest in water. Her work can be found on mandyosterhausream.com.