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After traveling the globe for years, mj settled on Maui where she wrote a Maui travel guide that won Hawaii’s “Best New Guidebook” award. She also published a feature magazine for Maui residents and created an art magazine for Maui's arts 'n cultural center, and she wrote a monthly magazine for Maui's hospital.

Her book of interviews with culturally important Hawaiian elders, “Voices of Wisdom Hawaiian Elders Speak,” won a first-place national IPPY award, and, subsequently, mj was asked to write a documentary on Hawaiian history and culture for the opening of the Smithsonian's new American Indian Museum.

Besides writing, mj owned two eco tour companies: Hike Maui and Rappel Maui; both guide adventurous visitors deep into Maui's wilderness. ...more

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A Loss . . .

We had plans, Anthony and I: hike rainforests; rappel waterfalls; practice yoga together; write a book about his very unusual life—violent, then redemptive. Finally, he would live again a free Hawaiian man on his beloved Maui.

Anthony had a powerful love of animals, so he was chosen to socialize retired racing greyhounds in prison. He was happy and sad when his dogs were adopted, but that was t

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