Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
“The trade winds should be coming this weekend.” It seemed like everyone was buzzing with the news Friday before last. But what does that even mean exactly? Shrug. For the three weeks prior I’d had my AC on nonstop. In Florida and Texas, we ALWAYS had the AC on, so I was surprised it hadn’t…
I dragged the kids to a cultural activity! Of course! What are moms for, right? I had plans to visit some other Obon festivals to celebrate summer Japanese style and relive some fond memories of dancing the night away with friends while wearing yukatas and sandals with socks. It’s cultural, I swear. But here it was,…
It can be done! Eloise and I paddle boarded from Kailua Beach to Moku Nui, the larger of the Mokulua Islands (in Hawaiian that means twin islands). I would be cautious about doing it with kids again. We went on the calmest day I’ve seen yet, watched the wrap around waves smashing into each other and…
I’m going to confess up front: ‘adventures in babysitting’ puts ME at the center of someone else’s story. I am a little embarrassed about that, but the fact is: I don’t have the right to tell their side of the story. And anyway, it was my birthday. So here goes. BOOM BOOM BOOM.What was that? Was…
The kids were finally in bed, then I get a text from Chris on the other side of the ocean: “earthquake off Mexico. I’m looking for tsunami alerts for you” “It’s cool, I obsessively plan for tsunamis,” I texted back with a photo of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (NO CURRENT ADVISORY IN EFFECT), which…
Eloise and I stopped into Island Bungalow on Hekili Street the other day and I picked up this book: ‘OHI—How to Gather and Arrange Hawaii’s Flora. It’s written by some ladies who own a botanical cafe in Honolulu, so of course I had to head over there for a Low Tide Latte and lunch to check…
It’s a case of extremely unfortunate timing…. Right when a trio of paddleboarders drifted between me and the moonrise, two of them addressed an issue with one of the paddleboards. Looking at all the whole shoot makes it clear they were fixing an issue of some sort, but I certainly did a double take when Eloise…
