The Deepak Chopra Center publishes monthly an inspirational newsletter called "Agni". Today's tome contains "The 5 Keys to Stress Release", something people in Maui (read: hippies, trust fund hippies or just old-fashioned doubters of authority, depending on the neighborhood) know quite a lot about. Many of us are fans of Deepak. So here's a Maui-fied version of his … [Read more...]
Six weeks of vacation
Normally, I work whenever I travel, part of the job of a freelance journalist. But for the first time in my adult life since leaving school, I took a long vacation. Six weeks to be exact. No, I didn't turn socialist and move to France (although I did gorge on fresh croissants at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport). I left my computer at home and took time off work, as in no money … [Read more...]
Volcano Viewing Etiquette
There is an etiquette to watching the spectacle of molten lava flowing into the ocean (as described in the post "New Vents in Kilauea Volcano Spout Fountains of Lava"). Here are my top five tips for good volcano viewing manners: Come prepared. Walking out to a recently hardened field of lava to watch another, active field of lava is about as rugged as terrain gets. No one … [Read more...]
Debarred and Defrocked
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that...... Electricians could be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, and dry cleaners depressed? Wouldn't you expect laundry workers to decrease, eventually becoming depressed and depleted? Likewise, bedmakers might be debunked, baseball players debased, bulldozer operators degraded, … [Read more...]