The lava was moving fast, and in one day it grew 400 yards! That’s four football fields. There was no stopping it and by the end of the month of September it was predicted to eat up our town of Pahoa, Hawaii, and cross over the highway. There was lot of denial and panic. I […]
It’s hard not to become a lava addict when lava is going to cover your town and is going to change your life in the moment. I wait each day for the new flow maps and the civil defense message telling me how fast it’s moving, how wide it is, its current location and its […]
When we first moved to Hawaii and met our neighbors, it wasn’t, “Hi, what’s your name?”, it was more, “Hi, what is your diet?” Diet or what one ate was more important than your name. We met all sorts of people with all sorts of diets–primal, raw, vegan, fruitarian, instinctive, etc. Whole communities were based […]
I was in our local natural food store in the refrigerator section when I first saw this spiky yellow orb. As I was turning it over in my hands, the produce manager came up to me and told me that it was a horned melon from Africa. She said I should try planting some of […]
About seven years ago, I was in Miami for the Dale Chihuly night art exhibit at the Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden. It was thrilling beyond words. The blown glass artwork set in and around the gardens illuminated by natural and artificial light was astonishing and magical. We walked through the tropical fruit tree greenhouse and […]