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I am not some marathon running pundit eager to pontificate on life to older people who’d rather be sitting on a couch watching Netflix, especially during a pandemic where jokes of the excruciating wait til wine-thirty are rampant or “the CoronaVirus 10” is jokingly discussed. Julie and Eric discover the joys of sitting under a […]
The pandemic has hit Hawaii Island hard, as we have lost 99% of our tourism in the past five months. I wanted to do something to support our island businesses. I have been spotlighting some of our surviving restaurants on my 365 Things to Do in Kona Facebook page, on the Kona Newbies group and […]
I am SUPER excited to announce the launch of my newest book! Unlike the other two books I wrote, “How to Move to Kona” and “The Insiders Guide to Buying Real Estate on Hawai’i Island” this is a story about our family and my determination to spend one year living on an island and taking […]
I recently had an interesting experience on a train in a dining car where a young woman of color was sitting next to me and the waiter was being so condescending to her, that I stood up for her. I wrote a post on Facebook about the experience and received over 100 likes and really […]
Please allow me to introduce you to a kindness strategy I recently learned from my friend Vasi, one of the most generous, but also strategic, financial award/tippers/kindness dollar awarders I have ever met. Vasi, a three degree earner, kick ass Realtor and immigrant from Romania, ensures she has three things in her arsenal of kindness- […]
Tourism has been on my mind lately. Seeing Moloka’i this weekend, with it’s decidedly ‘We are not going to be a tourist mecca and that’s that” flavor, and watching the hordes streaming onto rental car transportation busses at the Maui airport and being stuck in daily traffic along Alii Drive where everyone likes to cruise […]
I love to travel and have always dreamed of having a way to do it as part of my job. I helped promote real estate conferences in 2016 and flew to cities around the mainland, but nothing beats a trip to Maui! As part of an ambassadorship with our local airline, my husband and I […]
