• Hawaii Diaries #2 – Exploring Kapaa, Chickens Galore and a Costco Visit

    Hawaii Rocks. It was nice to finally see it in the day time after a day of travel. The goal of day two was to get more acclimated to the island but it turned into a day of Exploring Kapaa, a small town on the east side of the island. I started the day early as I am today. It’s real easy to wake up at 4 A.M. local time here when you’re from the east coast. After all, it’s 9 A.M. my time right now and I never sleep in late. The sun hadn’t come up yet and the roosters were making noise. Did I mention there’s tons of…

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    Hawaii Diaries #1 – Travel and My Hawaiian Airlines Flight

    Guys, it’s 5:00 A.M. Hawaii time. It’s the start of day 2 of my Hawaii honeymoon. The below was written during day 1 on my Hawaii Airlines flight to Honolulu. The Travel Day I’m 8791 km away from New York and the outside air temperature is -69 degrees F. At least, that’s what the screen on my Hawaii Airlines flight is telling me right now.  That’s right guys, it’s honeymoon time! Unfortunately, travel comes with travel time; the total crap part of the trip.  The part where we have to spend an entire day flying. It’s an 11 hour flight to Honolulu from JFK. The cool part(sarcasm) is that’s not…

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    What Makes You Happy Interview No.1 : Finding Happiness at Home

    What makes you happy? A new interview series.  What makes you happy? It’s a good question and one that all of us likely ask ourselves at one point in our lives. It’s an important thing to figure out and that can be a tough task at times. The reason this can be so complicated is that there’s no one size fits all answer to the question. There’s your usual suspects like family, travel, money or power and others but not all of these fill that inner void for everyone. I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of happiness. It’s an odd little thing; how different all of us are when it…