Aloha and Bula - I am looking forward to our upcoming trip to Kauai and then Oahu from August 14-25.  I have not been back for a few years now and I find my heart yearning for the people and places dear to my heart.   I don't know many people on Kauai and the last time I was there was over 15 years ago when I was working for Healthy Families Hawai'i (aka Healthy Start).  Beautiful place, wonderful people and feels like home in some ways. 

I just bought some leis from Cindi's Lei's in Honolulu and they are shipping them over for a Friday arrival.  Great Service and wonderful people.  I highly recommend them to anyone.

I have read a lot of books this last week.  The Help is a great book and I hear is being released in the movie theaters tonight.  I am now reading The Magician King by Lev Grossman and I read the first book of this series or trilogy - whatever it may be.  Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner is next.  All this in combination with my daily New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harpers  and Cooks Illustrated.  Just a few of my favorite things that I love to read.  

I'll post fotos as I move through Hawai'i.  On Oahu it will be a wonderful reunion.  I will be interviewing (I hope) at Tripler and other local hospitals.  Enough for now, long day at work but much is accomplished.

Aloha,

Kawika