by toby | Dec 29, 2013 | Life
Since the kids were in junior high (old enough to help with the massive work involved with camping) we’ve been going out to Hana during Christmas break. We’d usually set up tents under one of the hala trees on the bluff of the Haleakala National Park in Kipahulu, but...
by toby | Dec 15, 2013 | Life
It’s always nice to start with the worst so you can end on a happy note. FIVE WORST THINGS ABOUT CHRISTMAS IN HAWAII: The price to see family. We’re stuck three thousand miles away from anyone out here, and flying at the holidays is two things: exorbitant and...
by toby | Oct 30, 2013 | Life
What would you say to your younger self in two words? I post these pictures and positives on my Facebook page–my little way of doing some mental health encouragement for my friends and followers. Yesterday's post, this picture, yielded such a bounty of wonderful...
by toby | Oct 22, 2013 | Life
The other woman in my life is middle age. She's a cruel mistress. I came up with that phrase myself, liked the ring of it. Then I thought, why is middle age female? Shoot, male middle age is a mean bastard! Somehow I didn’t think it would happen to me, and I know The...
by toby | Aug 22, 2013 | Life
Glamour weekend at St. Regis Princeville for Bethany Hamilton's wedding. The first time I saw Kaua`i’s Hanalei Bay from the site of the St. Regis Princeville, I was five years old. The five-star resort location was a pasture with a steep slope that ended in a little...
by toby | Jun 7, 2013 | Life
Cityshock and re-entry June 7, 2013 We undertook our most harrowing adventure of all the day before we came back to Maui—driving through downtown San Francisco, during rush hour, to go to the Star Trek movie. Our urban assault Jeep was put through its paces as Mike...