My Life
Scuba diving- an immersion experience
She stumbled toward the water, laden like a camel in the Sahara with scuba apparatus. Sweat beaded forehead, trickled down spine, puddled in the claustrophobic carapace over the constricting suit. Her back bowed under the weight of steel and rubber as she staggered...
The Conservation Warrior Returns
Guest Blog by Tawny Neal, Cellular/Molecular Biology Major and Intern I’m back from the misty jungle, tired and dirty but pleased. After a long week in another world, the return to civilization is jarring. It is one of the most astonishing things I’ve ever...
Idea Mining
Idea mining. It's a whole new way to work, and it involves taking naps. After my daughter left for University and my son moved out, there was a void in my life. Yes, yes, I know, the infamous Empty Nest. I was aware of this syndrome, and being me, I had a plan—I was...
Rainbows
Rainbows Super cheesy topic folks. I want to preface the following remarks with the explanation that I was, indeed, a child who believed in fairies, unicorns, spirits and menehunes. Not Santa though—we didn’t do Santa. But we loved rainbows in our family, and...
Cooking- or lack thereof
(Names and details confused to befuddle anyone trying to figure out who's in this story) Anna is a little woman with an amazing mind who possesses two master’s degrees and speaks three languages. She talks rapidly, like her thoughts leave her tongue behind. She and...
In case the helicopter goes down…
“I need natural material shoes,” my daughter says, pacing nervously around the house as she packs for her first-ever helicopter trip. “I also need to wear all natural fiber clothes.” She’s packing for a week in the trackless jungle on the rainy side of the volcano...
Hands make vision come to life.
Always my favorite body part, hands are a miracle of engineering. A series of segmented digits wired together by tendons and muscles, clothed in skin and armored by nails, they’re animated by electricity. Hands have painted, molded, harvested and built the world....
My Writing
12 Mistakes to Avoid (in writing and in life)
I’m still working on this list and don’t expect to be done until I cock up my toes at age 100 or thereabouts. 1. Taking yourself too seriously. 2. Refusing to listen to feedback. 3. Giving up. 4. Going bathingsuit shopping in the dead of winter in...
7 things I've learned about writing
I follow an excellent blog, Guide to Literary Agents, with lots of good articles and such. One of the ongoing articles is “7 things I’ve Learned” and that prompted this blog because, amazingly, everyone’s Things are different. We are all ‘snowflakes’ after all, even...
On the care and feeding of muses
It is an exceptionally clear, warm and gorgeous day at the park on the side of Haleakala. The ocean, glowing blue mystery, merges with the sky in the distance and holds the floating green/purple island of Lanai, and the striated majesty of the West Maui Mountains,...
The Versatile Blogger award!
Eileen Andrews, a wonderful writer, passed this on to me.Thanks so much Eileen! The "rule" is that I have to tell 7 things about myself. Arg. That's all this blog is! Oh well, here goes: 1. I like to paint. Not well, but with enthusiasm. 2. I collect jewelry. Don't...
Black Jasmine and NaNoWriMo have taken over my blog.
Black Jasmine is my third novel in the Hawaiian mystery series featuring Leilani Texeira, my intrepid multicultural detective. One of the cool ideas I had for the series was for her to travel to the different islands solving crimes. In this latest one set on Maui, I...
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