by toby | Jan 8, 2016 | Hawaii, Life, Parenting
There was six-foot surf goddess in my bedroom! Bethany Hamilton surfs like a girl, but moms like a woman, and last week, Bethany arrived on Maui with her hunky husband Adam, baby Tobias, father Tom, and filmmaker Aaron Lieber, to capture footage for her upcoming film,...
by toby | Dec 31, 2015 | Life
Embracing mediocrity was a turning point for me, but New Year’s resolutions have always been a favorite flagellation. For the last twenty years and more, every New Year’s eve I’d go off by myself to review my journals from the year. The last ten years, I’d go up on...
by toby | Dec 26, 2015 | The Writing Life
Red Rain, Lei Crime Series 11, is live today! I worked hard to resolve the cliffhanger ending of Bone Hook related to what happened to Stevens in record time, and I'm proud of this book! What a suspenseful tale. Red Rain was just amazing to write, the first Lei Crime...
by toby | Nov 28, 2015 | Life
When your dog dies, even after a long slow decline as our old girl did today, it’s a feeling not quite like any other, a unique grief. Dogs are so completely unconditionally loving that having that presence go…well, I’ve cried harder today than I have at human...
by toby | Nov 25, 2015 | Life
I had a random encounter with gratitude today. Maui dawned cool, foggy and rainy, unusual for our island, known for depthless skies and broad vistas. Something about the weather made me sleepy and sad, filled with nostalgia for when my kids were younger and I was a...