Tides Between Two Worlds: A Polynesian Journey Through Academia and Aloha

Born to a Native Hawaiian father and British mother in 1970s Honolulu. Summers learning traditional navigation from kupuna on Molokai. Mainland universities where Indigenous knowledge was dismissed as folklore. A career in marine biology built between two ways of understanding the sea.

A father's battle with diabetes. Family land lost to developers. A marriage that could not bridge cultural divides. The personal threads weave through broader questions of environmental stewardship and cultural preservation. What does it mean to honor multiple heritages without fracturing your soul? A memoir about finding strength in the space between worlds."