Sorry I’ve been absent this past week but not sorry for the reason. I took a little vacation-a time to recharge my creative batteries and laze around. I went to Hawaii with my sister and met my daughter and her family there. Nice.

Beautiful scenery and amazing flowers.




Lots of beach.

This is how I spent a lot of time.


Of course there are some other things to see and do. We visited the Arizona memorial. Very touching.

The Punch bowl memorial. More amazement. Over 33,000 markers of those who fought in the Pacific.

But for real amazement look at these guys out fishing in a surf that practically washed them off the rocks and a wind that they could barely stand in. I waited a while hoping to get a million dollar picture to sell to the tabloids when they got swept away but it didn’t happen.

I came back with a story worked out (nothing like a long boring airplane ride for thinking).