With My Papa at Cowboy Pond is an abbreviated autobiography. "I probably will not live to see our grandsons graduate from high school. This story is for them. Cowboy Pond on Waikoloa stream is where my story is set. It is a real place from where I impart grandfatherly advice via Lalamaikai, share tidbits about me and their Tutu (grandma), and emphasize a core message-live in the future, not the past. Lalamaikai and I are its central characters.