We attended a small church in Kailua and have never loved any Lent or Easter as much as I did with this community. I've never been to a church before or after that had more meaningful Holy Week services. Each year they put up a burned and beat up cross where the Christmas tree typically stood. The cross was truly an old rugged cross, [...]

I used to hate St. Patrick's Day growing up. I attended a Catholic school and we had a ton of Irish or part Irish kids and they gave me such grief every year. One year one of my nuns told us that there were two kinds of people. There were the ones who are Irish and the ones who wished they were. So there [...]

In retrospect, moving from sunny Hawaii to gloomy Wisconsin in March probably was not the best choice. But we’d quit our jobs, given notice on our gorgeous duplex, and sad goodbye to the best landlord ever. The loan was approved and it was time to start the new life I never wanted. After a final concert with the Hawaii Vocal Arts Ensemble and a [...]