Stargazing at Haleakala National Park
If you are ever blessed with a chance to visit Maui, the Valley Isle, don’t leave without first stargazing with Becky at Maui Astronomy Tours. You will leave with an experience like none other and feeling like you have touched…
Thankful for Shoeboxes!
Shoeboxes get me so excited!!! I know, first buttermilk, now shoeboxes! You must be wondering, “Charlene, what on earth are you thinking!?” Well it just so happens, I’m gearing up for Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child program. The idea is…
Buttermilk Bliss
Today, buttermilk has me all fired up! Yes, that’s right! I’m not ashamed, I said buttermilk! Why buttermilk, you ask?! Well, it just so happens that I scored ten quart sized bottles of it for .99 cents each!!! They are also organic, and…
Volunteering at O’o Organic Farm, Maui
Imagine yourself perched on the hillside of a dormant volcano, above the clouds, hands and knees covered in volcanic soil as you help thin arugula seedlings on an organic farm. Sounds like heaven…right?! That is exactly where my family found…
Who is Charlene?
Salutations! Say what?! ‘Salutations’ is just a fancy way of saying hello! I learned this as a child in my favorite book, Charlotte’s Web, by E.B. White. It is likely pretty obvious by that book title that I love nature, farms, friends, spiders (ok…just…