Oh Hawaii. I got a double-dose of you this year—once with each daughter—and it wasn’t enough.
Former flight attendant/ESL teacher. Travel the country as an education consultant, happily combining two favorite jobs into one. I try to Be Where I Am, Get Over It, and Have a Laugh whenever possible.
Love: science fiction, Hawaii, cats, all things British or blue-and-white, houses, books, Disney, traveling (especially on a jet plane), work, friends, family, and Asian cuisine. So you might see a lot of photos of those things, mostly taken on my iPhone, which I also love.
Hubby and I live in Texas, with grown kids in California, Utah, Texas, New York, South Korea, and soon Montana. So you can expect to hear about those kids and those places, too.
Love: science fiction, Hawaii, cats, all things British or blue-and-white, houses, books, Disney, traveling (especially on a jet plane), work, friends, family, and Asian cuisine. So you might see a lot of photos of those things, mostly taken on my iPhone, which I also love.
Hubby and I live in Texas, with grown kids in California, Utah, Texas, New York, South Korea, and soon Montana. So you can expect to hear about those kids and those places, too.
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Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
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Saw “Bernie” tonight - starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, Matthew McConaughey, and...
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Fleet Week, Manhattan
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Waiting in line for the bus...
SO TRUE.
I think now that I’ve taken buses and subways in Korea...
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ewcertain asked: I just finished watching Battlestar Galactica for the first time ever and I am absolutely speechless. I am convinced it might be one of the best television series in history. I even had the board game, which is awesome, before I watched the series. Will you forgive me for being so late to the party?
Are you kidding? We need as many frakking survivors as we can get!
The Descendants
(Photo: Merie Wallace/Courtesy of Fox Searchlight)
On the way back from picking up my daughter in Korea, we want to stop in Tokyo, Guam, and Honolulu.
Dreamers gonna dream.
Quora’s Answer to: What are the most beautiful places in the world?
Molokai Coast, Hawaii by Harry Wishard
My step-grandchildren are in Hawaii this week, snorkeling with sea turtles and porpoises.
Jelly.
Sigh. Miss this.
This book was not what I expected. I expected a sad book about grief and Hawaii that would be painful to read. Instead, it was a pretty funny book set in Kailua (where I used to live) about moving forward (not moving on) that I finished in one day.
Read it and then let’s discuss it.
Just thinkin’ ‘bout Hawaii stuff.
Required viewing before a trip to Hawaii Nei. Add Blue Crush, 50 First Dates, The Ride, North Shore, and the Modern Family and Full House Hawaii episodes for good measure. And the entire Lost series if you have time.
Next in the series: The Descendants, can’t wait. Reading the book now.
It’s always hard to leave Hawaii. Sometimes I think, “God, why did you ever even show me this wonderful place that’s so expensive and so hard to get to?”
But mostly I think, “God showed me this wonderful place!”
My daughter and I leave Hawaii tomorrow so I started getting sad about it yesterday. This was the view from the back porch of our beach cottage on the north shore. Sigh.
In Hawai’i we greet friends, loved ones and strangers with Aloha, which means with love.
Aloha is the key word to the universal spirit of real hospitality, which makes Hawai’i renowned as the world’s center of understanding and fellowship.
Try meeting or leaving people with Aloha.
You’ll be suprised by their reaction.
I believe it and it is my creed.
Aloha to you.
Duke Paoa Kahanamoku
Honu (Hawaiian sea turtle). My daughter was so hoping to see honu and there they were, basking on the beach. Beautiful.
All the way across the sky!
Hello, Hawaii. Thanks for the rainbow welcome as we drove to our hotel. It’s good to be back.
