Making Waves: Causing Trouble
Dennis Gregory
What happens when a surfer, wanderer, historian, humorist, and unapologetic troublemaker gets a newspaper column?
You get Making Waves: Causing Trouble.
For nearly a decade, Dennis Gregory entertained readers across Hawaiʻi Island with his popular newspaper columns, delivering a unique mix of sharp wit, island humor, historical storytelling, social commentary, and laugh-out-loud observations about modern life. From Hawaiian history and forgotten adventures to politics, travel mishaps, quirky characters, and everyday absurdities, Gregory finds humor and insight in places most people overlook.
Whether he's imagining the Devil interviewing Donald Trump, recounting Viking voyages to the New World, reflecting on life in old Hawaiʻi, or poking fun at everything from smartphones to airport security, Gregory's writing is fearless, heartfelt, and consistently entertaining.
Filled with colorful characters, surprising history, local flavor, and plenty of opinions, Making Waves captures the spirit of Hawaiʻi while exploring universal truths about human nature, community, freedom, and the ever-changing world around us.
Perfect for readers who enjoy humor, satire, Hawaiʻi stories, local history, political commentary, and the art of seeing life from a different perspective.
RELEASE DATE: June 10, 2026
GENRE: Humor / Essays
FORMAT: Paperback
ISBN-13: 979-8-9986634-9-9 (b&w paperback)
TRIM: 5.5" x 8.5"
PAGE COUNT: 161
