Rentin’ Movies and Drinkin’ Smoothies

I am embarking on a three week cleanse and Brian commented that all I would be doing for the next month is ‘renting movies and drinking smoothies,’ to which I promptly replied, ‘Thank you, that will make an excellent blog title.’ I have wanted to do a full cleanse and detox for many years, but I could never seem to find the right one for me or the right time to do it. I realized…

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Little Signs and Big Love

Brian and I island hopped to Maui this past weekend to celebrate our one year anniversary. It was a relaxing and fun weekend and neither of us wanted to leave. There is a tranquility and spaciousness about Maui that I don’t think exists on Oahu, but I guess that is what is neat about the islands; they are all beautiful in such different ways. I always felt pulled to Hawaii, and aside from the obvious,…

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Old Pine

I am inspired by this music video today, Mickey Smith created this video for Ben Howard’s song, “Old Pine.” Love the imagery and the tune. Enjoy. [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/22163776 w=400&h=225] OLD PINE from Astray Films on Vimeo.

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Simple

I have two friends in town from Vancouver for ten days, which means I get to pretend like I’m on vacation too. (That never gets old.)  I took them on a tour of the southeast side of the island yesterday, from Diamondhead to Waimanalo. As we played on the beach, one of my friends commented that I’m like a happy little kid.  I absolutely love having my good friends here with me, so I guess it makes me, well,…

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WordPress over Tumblr

I decided to move my blog from Tumblr to WordPress. I find the latter has more of the functions I wanted and, in my opinion, it is more user friendly. I work with WordPress on the Surfrider website so I’m also a little more familiar with the format. I used to write on Blogger for years as well, and I continue to recommend it to anyone starting up a blog, but I wanted to try something new.  I’m still playing…

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