This is my year of trying new things. (Even if it CLEARLY is not my year of being a more prolific blogger.) I’ve started a new business. (I’m starting slowly and it’s going pretty well.) I’m trying to grow plants. (That’s not going so well.) And I’m expanding my culinary... Read More

Over Labor Day weekend, we were fortunate enough to be invited to attend the third annual Kā‘anapali Fresh festival. And, lucky me, this year I managed to get myself over to Maui before the media welcome dinner or any other festivities got under way! The media welcome dinner was held... Read More

Everyone says, “You’re always going to Maui!” It certainly feels true. We’ve been fortunate enough to keep receiving invitations to come over and even more fortunately, we now have friends there to tell us where to eat! Our early trips to Maui involved multiple meals at Pizza Hut. It was... Read More

This summer, I had the chance to work on a fun and interesting project: I got to shoot half of the recipes for a published cookbook. I work for the publishing company, and we needed someone who could shoot in Hilo and wouldn’t cost us too much. Enter…me! I spent... Read More

Today’s Friday Photo is an image I want to share from a shoot I did for work. It’s a local cookbook featuring recipes from “Then” and “Now.” I did the “Then” dishes, which were shot in Hilo. I don’t really like crossing my work stuff with my personal and blog... Read More