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People always asked how I did it. In the late 1970s, Kathy Clarke was the midwife for what became a burgeoning incentive travel industry in Hawai'i. Part memoir and part trade chronicle, View from the Volcano deftly combines the events of Clarke's personal life with stories of the fitful growth of the Aloha State's most influential industry. "Impossible" was not a word in Clarke's vocabulary as she raised seven children and helped create a th...

Love, like water, is our birthright. Where is home when you're the daughter of immigrants? When is it safe to say you're gay? Author and poet Catherine Bachy has been traversing cultures all her life. Bicultural and bilingual from birth, she often finds herself in between worlds, sensitive to the sideways looks aimed at families like hers who aren't quite like the others, alert for the subtle cues that affirm, "This is where you belong." In Gu...

Kitchens are the heart of the home. In Maria Gutierrez's family, kitchens are where traditions are created and shared, the conversation and storytelling are lively, and tiny demonstrations of love are served daily. In Las Abuelas, she has penned a love letter to her mother and a tribute to the women on both sides of her family who instilled a deep appreciation for food and story that is passed down from generation to generation. "I was raised...

For all of my life, most of my relatives lived on the Mainland and I lived in Hawai'i. I never really knew them and as a result have very little in the way of family history and stories, or little sense of belonging to an extended family. But I have my own history, story, and place where I belong. I've always believed I was damn lucky to have grown up on the Big Island of Hawai'i back in the days of the sugar plantations, I'm grateful I was th...

When a high-profile politico discovers love in a hostess bar, he finds the road to romance is paved with some deep and startling secrets. A rising political star ousted from the mayor's cabinet stumbles into "one of those bars"-the type not mentioned in polite society-and that's when the unthinkable happens. A beautiful, mysterious bargirl-just as emotionally damaged as he is-turns out to be the one woman who can soothe his ego and mend his he...

Passionate and adventurous, Kathy Clarke has always believed in her own abilities and refused to let one day go by without being lived to its fullest. Maybe that's what happens when you're accidentally shot point-blank with a .22 rifle at age three and a half and you live to tell about it. A challenging childhood prepared Clarke to accept life's capriciousness. "It seemed like a really good idea at the time..." could be her life's motto. "Go...

Evidence of my life is everywhere.What does it mean to be Chinese American? How are we reflected in the people we love, and us in them? What obligation do we have to those who share our blood, and how does a woman claim her life as her own? In vivid and evocative flashes of prose, Darien Hsu Gee dissects her beliefs and navigates the complexity of family dynamics in search of her identity.The Hali'a Aloha Series publishes personal essays, memo...

A Hawaiian girl began without a Hawaiian name, when being Native Hawaiian wasn't cool. When a high school classmate gave Sally-Jo Bowman a Hawaiian name in 1956, she ignored it because it wasn't "official" and she focused on becoming a journalist. Yet, over many years, "Keala-o-Anuenue, " The Path of The Rainbow, crept subliminally into what she chose to write about and how she wrote. Eventually that pathway surfaced and became front and cente...