Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
This was a pretty calm year for us! Unusually calm. Good calm. We didn’t move or have a baby or anything! Here’s what stands out in review: 2018 Ballistic missile SNAFU. Beautiful days on the Kaneohe sand bar. Chris deploying. Some rainy months. My parents visited for a second time. More rain. Chris got home….
‘Twas the day before Christmas and all through the land People were swimming and playing in the sand. And I in my lounger and Chris in his chair Had just settled down for some salty sea air When what to my wondering eyes did appear But a giant tourist bus full of good cheer! …….
I spent several extremely enjoyable hours this week proofing an update of a Kauai tourist magazine for a company I’ve been writing for lately. It was a magazine I’d actually picked up before our Kauai trip last month. Reading about the island—many places we went, several we didn’t—reminded me what a fun weekend that was!…
Picking out a farm-fresh island pine to make sure our Kalikimaka is green and bright
“Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. “… The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian Islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I regret to tell you that very many…
My kids have been super whiny lately. “Where are we GOING today?!” they whined after school pickup a few weeks ago. “I thought we’d go to the sunflower patch at the farm!” I said. “We can get hot dogs for dinner before Awana!” “NOOOOOOOOOOOO! I don’t want to!” they both whined. “FINE. We’ll go home…
“There are three things that amaze me—no, four things that I don’t understand: how an eagle glides through the sky, how a snake slithers on a rock, how a ship navigates the ocean, how a man loves a woman.” (Proverbs 30:18-19) Water so clear you can see 30 feet down to the bottom, and so…
