by Kathryn | Nov 13, 2014 | Recipes
As American Thanksgiving is approaching I want to introduce many of you to the best way of getting your turkey to turn out perfect. For the most delicious and moist turkey that you have ever eaten, nothing comes close to brining your turkey. I got this idea out of a...
by Kathryn | Dec 22, 2013 | Lennie & Kathryn
The sun had just risen and was streaming in across the bed. The fragrant orange and white lei that Lennie had placed around my neck at the airport was hanging on the lampshade and I could feel the cool ocean breeze filtering through the jalousie windows with the...
by Kathryn | Nov 7, 2012 | Lennie & Kathryn
In Loving memory of Lennie who passed away one year ago today. Gone, but never forgotten. Love, Kathryn www.kathrynsmith.com
by Kathryn | Aug 26, 2012 | Lennie & Kathryn, Thoughts
Trying to stay positive is sometimes hard work. Today was Lennie’s birthday. He would have been 64. It was one of those melancholy days when I kept thinking back to when he had turned 61. I had only known him for several months and had decided to throw him a...
by Kathryn | Aug 4, 2012 | Lennie & Kathryn
It was eleven a.m. in the morning in Vancouver. I could feel the panic rising in me as I dialed Lennie’s number. Vancouver International airport was huge; bigger than anything I had imagined. Because I was still in Canada, I was told that I had to pick up my...
by Kathryn | Mar 16, 2012 | In the News
As I previously mentioned, my blog has been down and I have been unable to post, so this is from March 9, 2012. WET & WILD HAWAI’I is a water theme park here in Hawai’i. Today it was the description for the entire Hawai’ian Islands. I woke up...
by Kathryn | Feb 14, 2012 | Lennie & Kathryn, Thoughts
Today is Valentine’s Day. It is one of the few sunny days that there has been here on the windward side of O’ahu in the Hawai’ian Islands. I am sitting in the backyard of the home that I lived in with Lennie. It was 3 years ago today that I first...
by Kathryn | Jan 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Lennie and I shared a beautiful love affair for 996 days and nights from Valentine’s Day 2009, when we met by serendipitous chance on the Internet, to November 7, 2011 when he died in my arms in his beloved Hawai’i. The following is a pictoral history of...
by Kathryn | Jan 14, 2012 | Lennie & Kathryn
“I am courting you Kathryn.” Lennie was at the Ala Moana Hotel standing out side of Rumors Night Club. In the background I could hear the music playing. It was a duet between Nat King Cole and his daughter Natalie Cole. It was a recording...