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It’s Monday, December 17 – From HPR2, it’s The Conversation.

An appointment with destiny for the GLBT Caucus?

Jo-Ann Adams is an estate planning attorney licensed to practice in Hawaii and California and a political activist. She is a member of the Waikiki Neighborhood Board, active in the Democratic Party of Hawaii, and the legislative liaison for the GLBT Caucus now preparing legislation to move their marriage equality agenda forward.

Pride and Prejudice: the Japanese Eyes with American Hearts of WWII.

Ted Tsukiyama’s reminiscences of life in Second World War Hawaii are part of Volume Two of Japanese Eyes, American Heart, the story of life on the home front as told by Hawaii’s Japanese population.

Fins to the left and fins to the right...but not in the water.

Dr. Kim Holland is a Research Professor at the UH Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology and the leader of the Pelagic Fisheries Group and Shark Research Group. His work involves electronic tagging of large marine animals- sharks, tunas and marlins- to trace their movement patterns. He has a long history in Hawaii; he has been a faculty member since 1980, and is a former UH student.

When fiction is fact for Saving Paradise.

Mike Bond is the author of “Saving Paradise, a novel set in Hawaii that’s described as an “existential thriller.”

And today's global headlines from Al Jazeera, a Christmas quiz, Bill Sage with the beat on what's brewin' and a Monday reality check... Now the NPR  news.