Some of you have expressed an interest in my new book, Fascinating Facts about Hawaii.  It’s a collection of many interesting and little-known facts about these incredible islands and many...

You may have read about Amanda Eller. She’s a local resident who went off for an afternoon hike, became disoriented, got lost, and was finally rescued … seventeen days later....

I had a nice phone conversation this afternoon with Roy Sakuma. He plays the ukulele wonderfully, as he damn well should since he was a student of Herb Ohta, known...

That’s the working title of a book I’m working on and it’s the reason I have neglected this space for the past several days. I’m entering crunch time for this...

I’ve often been asked about the connection between Elvis Presley and Hawaii.  There was nothing strange about it, as far as I know. Apparently, it was simply that Elvis loved...

Hawaii is one of only two states that permits no form of legalized gambling. None whatsoever. It has been rumored for years that one reason for that is heavy lobbying...

(Friday morning) Hurricane Lane still has not come abreast of Maui, but it has diminished some in strength and it does appear that we will be mostly spared the inevitable...

By the end of this calendar year, best guess is that more than eight-and-a-half million people will have visited one or more of these islands. Traditionally, these malihini are welcomed,...

I’ve mentioned here before that Hawaii is the most remote populated spot on the globe. That’s a mildly interesting bit of trivia for most of us, but I can tell...

When I first arrived here in the early 60s, I really do remember the weather being almost monotonously beautiful almost all of the time. In fact, 50 years ago, the...