I'm generally easy going, positive, good natured and i love to laugh. I have a serious and analytical side, however, and I'll sometimes temper my flow with caution. I don't want much drama in a relationship, but rather,passion, growth, problem solving and romance. I look for the silver lining in every cloud. I'm certainly not flawless, but I listen to and deal honestly with constructive criticism, and I expect the same of my partner. I'm not looking for, nor do I necessarily want, someone who shares all my views and interests, but rather someone who is compatible. I'm not looking for a clone or a carbon copy, but a best friend and partner. I'm looking for a girl of similar or complementary character, but whose mind is independent. I want to build a relationship based on trust, communication and sharing.... The long and winding road led me to Maui, with detours aplenty. I've been here since 1987. The year after graduation I worked and then traveled across country. I was so enthralled by Boston that I wound up going to college there. At one point I considered living there. My last Boston winter convinced me otherwise, however. The cold and the snow I don't mind....but ice on the sidewalks and the streets? You call that living? And, yes, I still had only just begun.... So, I packed my bags (or, rather, my backpack) and stuck out my recently de-iced thumb to begin a long zig zag across country. My trek ended three months later at the L. A. airport. I arrived home in time to enroll as a graduate student at the UH/Manoa. Not knowing what I wanted to be when I grew up, I became a professional student. Years later, I emerged with a law degree. Originally from an outer island, I wanted to return to one. While waiting for a position to open in Hilo I got a call from a judge on Maui. He offered me a year long clerkship. So, once again I packed my bags (or, rather, 27 enumerated boxes) and loaded my 1967 Toyota (with boxes stuffed inside) on the barge. A year later I hung out a shingle here. I have a general practice, but am doing a lot of family law. Maui was growing when I got here. Apparently its growth has picked up. It's still nice, however. Marriage? s? Yes and No. Maybe again and it's still possible--after all, I'm a guy :). ....And I've lived on Maui, gathering moss ever since. I'm collecting material for my autobiography, to be published no time soon. First, I need my 15 minutes of fame. To be trite, I also need to figure out what I've become since I grew up. :)

My Ideal Person I'm looking for a girl who is relatively easy going, honest, sincere, who loves to laugh and who is at ease with who she is (who doesn't need to prove anything). Hopefully she will like to travel and to try new and different things. I like a scintillating conversation, but I do not appreciate the "gotcha" mentality or other forms of pettiness. I view life as, among other things, a never ending learning process. People who are fixed/frozen in their views become close minded and their awareness atrophies: their perceptions and intake of information are at least largely restricted by their preconceptions. I like and learn from mature exchanges of different points of view, and from a neutral defining of those differences. I would like a partner who shares this orientation.