by toby | Jul 14, 2014 | Life
I’m a hick from Hawaii. After the last fifteen years on Maui with its mellow two-to four lane roads, I’ve lost the ability to navigate heavy, multi-lane traffic in new places. On this trip to San Francisco I decided not to rent a car: just save the headaches of...
by toby | May 12, 2014 | Life
Cement block. There's a lot of it decorating Hawaii. “I've never seen so much cement block in my life,” I said, looking at the barren red dirt of a former pineapple field, held in check by several tiered walls of untreated, unpainted, unpretty cinderblock,...
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 | Apr 11, 2013 | The Writing Life
Stolen in Paradise, a Lei Crime Companion novel, will knock your heels off! One betta fish, two dead biologists, three trysts, four suspects and thirty-five pairs of shoes add up to complicated days in paradise for Special Agent Marcella Scott. Marcella gets into sand...
by toby | Feb 1, 2013 | The Writing Life
Broken Ferns, latest in the Lei Crime Series, is here and live on Amazon. The print book will be available in a month or so. Ah, the launch of a new book. Nothing quite beats that brand of butterflies. Creating four books in a little over a year have forged my book...