Welcome to Write Path Publishing!

Enjoy the warmth, spirit and adventure of Kauai in 50 inspiring, humorous and touching personal stories told by the island’s people. 

Dance hula with an award-winning hula instructor who helps keep this cultural tradition alive. 

Make salt the traditional way Hawaiians have been making salt for centuries.

Laugh with people as they recall growing up island-style in sugar plantation "camps," going barefoot until high school and making toys with whatever was on hand, like Frisbees from car-flattened, sun-dried toads.

Smile at humorous tales of acceptance and affection for members of the island’s wild chicken population.

Get to know patriotic Japanese American soldiers born on Kauai as they fight for the United States in World War II against Japan, the country of their parents' birth.

Journey thousands of miles across oceans in a voyaging canoe with sailors who navigate only by the stars, moon, sun and waves as their ancestors did when they discovered Hawaii more than 1,500 years ago. 

Feel the ocean spray as Kauai residents share their love of surfing, canoe paddling and strolling along secluded sandy beaches . . . often making the only footsteps in the sand. 

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Kauai Stories captures the sweetness and kindness of this island community with great detail, humor and grace.

— Robert Schleck, Director, Grove Farm Museum

Once you begin reading Kauai Stories, you will quickly understand what makes us say, “Lucky we live Kauai.”

— Sue Kanoho, Executive Director, Kauai Visitors Bureau

It's amazing to me that a a man who has never lived in Hawaii, I now have so many wonderful memories of Kauai. This is a book of magic.

— Floyd Jones, Colorado reside

Capture the spirit & adventure of Kauai in this collection of 50 new personal stories about life on the Garden Island.

Dance hula with teenage girls who were born to share this beautiful Hawaiian cultural tradition. 

Discover how two English-speaking residents became guardians of the Hawaiian language. 

String flower lei with ladies who keep this lovely art alive.

Ride waves with surfers who live to surf and surf to live. 

Meet people whose lives revolve around the ocean: swimming dangerous coastlines, making fishing nets and hunting for tasty, tiny “opihi” that live on the underside of ocean rocks. 

Get chicken skin (Hawaiian goose bumps) while reading about “Night Marchers” and other spirits of the island.

Feel the magic of Kauai that allows people to do such diverse things as find their true love, establish a Hindu monastery that builds a worldwide publishing empire, and transform oneself from a heavy pot smoker to a respected substance abuse counselor and pineapple farmer — all on this tiny island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

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I have been reacquainted with people and things that I love about Kauai: our ghosts, our artists, rip tides, old cars and entrepreneurs who helped develop this island. All the stories are fascinating!

— David Penhallow Scott

Kauai author, playwright, producer & director

I love reading these sweet, strange, funny, spiritual, haunting and soul-warming stories. They stick to my heart and feel like they’re my own memories. I absolutely love them.

— Floyd Jones, Colorado resident

Growing up as one of 13 children in the tiny sugar plantation camp of Kipu, on the island of Kauai in the 1930s and 1940s, always felt like a grand adventure to Harry Yamanaka. 

In this collection of his short stories, you will join Harry as he catches frogs to help feed his many siblings; makes his own fishing canoe using corrugated iron roofing; walks along a mile-long road at night with the ghost of Felix, and more. 

Harry’s memories of his childhood are humorous, sweet and insightful. He also writes with love and respect about his parents, who immigrated individually from Japan, met on Kauai, fell in love, and together raised their large family on his father’s salary of $35 per month. 

When you have finished reading “Kauai . . . in my heart,” Kauai will be in your heart, too. 

Everything changed for Yoshiko Kawaguchi on December 7, 1941, the day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, plunging the United States into World War II. 

Until then, Yoshiko had lived with her parents and three siblings in rural Downey, California, where her parents had been farm workers for nearly 20 years.

Four months after the bombing, the Kawaguchi family and 120,000 other Japanese Americans across the country, found themselves imprisoned, perceived by the U.S. as threats to national security, solely because of their Japanese ancestry. 

Now 94 years old, Yoshiko Susan Kawaguchi Matsumoto looks back at the five months that she and her family were forced to live in a horse stall at the Santa Anita Racetrack in Southern California, and the two years they were imprisoned in a second internment camp, in the desert of Rohwer, Arkansas.

Eventually Yoshiko and her family were released. 

From then on, Yoshiko’s life began to unfold in a series of events more fortuitous and beautiful than she could have ever imagined. 

  You hold the secrets to energy healing in your own hands

— and mind.

In this how-to guide, Dr. Abel Rodriguez shares his highly successful Energy Healing Unlocked techniques, making it possible for everyone to regain their natural health and vitality.

Whether you want to help one person or augment the healing modalities you offer clients, Dr. Rodriguez teaches you, step-by-step, how to heal the root cause of ailments and dysfunctions, purely by the power of your thoughts. 

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When I first visited Dr. Abel Rodriguez, I had been in pain most of my life. My joints and connective tissues ached, and my tendons felt raw all the time. I had allergies and thyroid problems, and had been a jaw-clencher for more than 16 years. 

After my first two visits with Dr. Rodriguez, my body felt better than it had in years. My headache and jaw ache were gone. I had more energy. Four months later, my jaw-clenching has decreased dramatically, my digestive issues are healing, and my joints and tendons no longer ache. I feel better than I have in a long time. 

— Karen F.

My son was diagnosed as autistic. He didn’t speak the entire two years he was in preschool. Professionals told me, “He won’t get better.” After the first week of treatments with Dr. Rodriguez, my son began smiling and laughing for the first time in his life. He can actually hold a conversation now and lets me know how he’s feeling. 

— Angela Roosevelt

  Live a Life of Freedom & Joy!

Debra Valentina vulnerably shares her journey from a chaotic, dysfunctional childhood to a thriving, satisfying life. 

Through the roller coaster ride she takes us on, we are filled with hope that we, too, can turn out to be happy, contributing human beings. You will not want to miss this engaging ride!

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Beyond Chaos is a touching memoir about resilience, adaptability, humor and the power of the choice to heal and overcome. Debra’s story is a shining example of how life’s challenges and adversity are the very threads we weave to fulfill our life’s work.

— Sydney Culver, Coach and Healer

Debra reminds us through her honesty and transparency that truth and an open heart always win. This book serves as an inspiration that we are never stuck in chaos.

— Patrick Feren, Spiritual Director, Center for Spiritual Living Kauai

Debra’s willingness to share her deepest shame and personal triumphs illustrate that anything is possible for each of us. A good read for anyone ready to move from “I can’t” to “Yes, I can!”

— Rita Andriello-Feren, Spiritual Director, Center for Spiritual Living