Things That Stick

Things That Stick

Please enjoy this excerpt from My Year In A Yurt. Precious Makai, my somewhat rare female orange tabby kitten, is now just shy of three months old. One of her hangouts is on our lanai whereby she is delicately harnessed using a soft white cord. Two days ago, while she...

Don’t Judge A Book By Its Cover

Please enjoy this excerpt from My Year In A Yurt. When you relocate, especially from Mainland United States to the Big Island, the challenge of finding a new family physician, dentist, and ophthalmologist can be a daunting task. (About as exciting as knowing you have...

Healing From The Ground Up

Please enjoy this excerpt from My Year In A Yurt. Loyalty is a quality I find very appealing. My oldest daughter, Ashley, is extremely loyal, always going to bat for me when the chips are down. Pat is the premier example of the loyal hubby, taking to heart the words...

Say “Yes” to a Yurt?

Please enjoy this excerpt from My Year In A Yurt. The dream of living in Hawaii was planted deep within our hearts years prior to actually making the move-of-faith, as I like to call it. In 2002, Pat and I took our first Big Island vacation after less than a full year...
Snapshots of the Big Island

Snapshots of the Big Island

WHEN CONSIDERING MOVING TO THE BIG ISLAND OF HAWAII… One must understand the differences between the nine districts, the eight to ten climate zones (depending on which resource you subscribe to), the nine lava zones, the four land designations, the cultural...