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...

 Over on the Island of Hawaii, universally known here simply as The Big Island, they’ve had the first snowfall of the year. Of course, it was raining almost everywhere else,...

Hawaii has always attracted celebrities. Back in the 1970s, it was quite common for some of the celebrity visitors to pay courtesy calls on Honolulu’s mayor at that time, Frank...

People tend to think of Hawaii as being way out in the middle of nowhere . . . so far off the beaten path that, except for tourists, we’re almost...

People always seem to be interested in hearing about Hawaii … what it’s like to have lived here for 55 years, as opposed to flying here from the mainland to...

  “Never turn you back on the ocean.” – Hawaiian Saying   Tourism industry officials in Hawaii have a problem: too many tourists are dying in accidents here. Of course,...

For years, Hawaii’s economy has been described as a three-legged stool: agriculture, the military, and tourism. But that’s changed. The military presence here is significant, of course, but not nearly...

Flying back to Maui from L.A. last Monday, I sat next to a big haole (white) guy, well into his 60s, who said he has visited Maui at least once...

My mainland friends think the weather here in Hawaii is perfect all the time. The truth is, it’s perfect most of the time in most places. Here on Maui, we...

This is a view up the windward coast of Maui taken from my Alaska Airlines flight on Saturday. It’s hazy from the “vog” (Volcanic Smog) we often get from the...