Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
A couple friends and I toured Shangri La, socialite Doris Duke’s waterfront mansion in Honolulu, while the kids were happily occupied in summer camp a couple weeks ago. Doris Duke was born in 1912 and inherited an unholy amount of money from her beloved father before her 13th birthday. She fell in love with Hawaii…
I started doing reviews again in exchange for FREE review copies! “Becoming the Talbot Sisters” by Rachel Linden gets a full FIVE stars for sure. I stayed up past midnight two days in a row to read this book. I read it at the dentist’s office while waiting for my jaw to get numb and…
The soft white glow of hundreds of lanterns reflected in the quiet stillness of the Byodo-In Temple pond. The annual obon festival finishes with the floating flights and chanting, requiem, and Ave Maria. This year’s festival additionally celebrates the temple’s 50th anniversary and the 150th anniversary of the first Japanese immigrants arriving in Hawaii. The…
Dream about the days to come when I won’t have to leave alone, about the times that I won’t have to say, “Kiss me and smile for me. Tell me that you’ll wait for me. Hold me like you’ll never let me go.” Every time he comes home it’s a countdown to when he leaves…
It’s been a while since The Scoop and I headed off on a photo safari or sightseeing of any kind, so today between volunteering at Isaac’s school and covering an event with my kids in tow, I set out to appreciate some of the bougainvillea spilling over the fences along the street that runs along…
“I don’t want to go to the beach! I want to play with Ally and Holden! I don’t want to get in a swimsuit! Waaaaaaah!” They DID want to go to the beach, they had so much fun splashing with each other and Chris and me in the water and caking themselves in sand, and…
One by one, egg sacs and sperm cloud the water around the spawning corals. Overhead looms both a full moon and the watchful eyes of pHd students at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology on Coconut Island in Kaneohe Bay. “Yeah! You can see them! They come floating out,” Mariana laughed Wednesday night at hula…
