Surf and Sentiment

April - May 2008

With this issue of HILuxury, we celebrate two things dear to our hearts: mothers and the beach. And there’s a connection. Really. Peggy Buchwach, wife of former Advertiser editor Buck Buchwach (the guy who brought me to Hawaii to write a daily column back in 1979, bless him), recalls her teenage son Buzzy asking her…

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Happy Hiluxury Holidays

December - January 2008

No Grinches allowed. Not around here. Not this holiday season. And no matter what holidays you celebrate – be it Bodhi Day Dec. 8, Hanukkah Dec. 5-12, Hajj Dec. 18-25, Winter Solstice Dec. 21 or Zarathosht Diso Dec. 26, a Zoroastrian holiday recalling the death of the prophet Zarathustra – we’re in quite the celebratory…

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Fine Ideas Brought To Life

October - November 2007

Aloha! In putting together this issue of HILuxury Magazine, I was reminded of a nugget from a college philosophy course long ago: That no object can exist physically if it does not first exist in a non-physical realm – that is, until somebody first conceives of the idea. And you have to be impressed with…

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