It's a sight in Hilo as regular as evening rain: groups of Japanese women wearing colored tour badges and clutching small bags board buses at the airport bound for Kilauea volcano. While their husbands in Honolulu play golf, these women journey to Hilo for the day. Men play for par while some women seek fertility. Pele is the Hawaiian goddess of fire. She rules volcanos, and … [Read more...]
Fertility Woes and Baby Hopes
By Heidi Pfister I was deleting my old email drafts and came across this almost two- year old email, which I never actually sent to the intended recipients...don't know why. Now my baby, Penelope, will be one year old in about a month, which makes it even more amusing to read than if I had I sent it when I wrote it. The email subject line read "fertility woes and baby … [Read more...]