Full Moon Eclipse Photos

The full moon turned dark from the earth’s shadow on February 20, 2008. This was the first full-moon, or total lunar, eclipse this year. The last one happened on March 3, 2007.

(Image courtesy of Adam Burgasser)
I observed this event from a remote mountain top in Chile (that’s in South America for those who [...]

Barack Obama’s Sister Maya Is Like Him, but Funnier

Maya Soetoro-Ng is a local Oahu girl, a schoolteacher and the mother of a four-year-old girl, Suhaila. She’s also Barack Obama’s half-sister. Barack and Maya share the same mother, Ann Dunham, who died from ovarian cancer in 1995. Maya’s father was Indonesian.

(Photo by George Waialeale)
Soetoro-Ng has helped Obama campaign in Hawaii throughout the election [...]

The Maui Arts & Crafts Guild Celebrated 25th Anniversary

I recently had an opportunity to interview Sandy Vitarelli, co-founder and active member of the Maui Arts & Crafts Guild located in Paia, Maui, Hawaii. The Guild celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2007, and the story entitled “Collective Soul” is published in the February/March 2008 issue of Hana Hou!, the in-flight magazine of Hawaiian [...]