I was reminded yesterday of a wonderful line from an old Peanuts comic strip. It was something Charlie Brown probably said, commenting on a particularly outrageous remark from Lucy:  ...

I’ve just finished listening to an hour-long NPR broadcast featuring a number of guests discussing the tragic Amtrak derailment near Philadelphia.   Included on the panel were former Pennsylvania governor...

Yesterday an Amtrak train derailed near Philadelphia and it’s a real mess. Six dead and hundreds injured. It’s way too soon to know exactly what happened, but there is pretty...

(The following paragraphs are from the current edition of my book: All Aboard—The Complete North American Train Travel Guide. I’m including these paragraphs today because I’m down with a lousy...

Whenever I travel from here in Hawaii to the mainland United States, I’m reminded immediately of a number of differences. First, although it’s certainly changing, there are all those white...

The older I get, the more I’ve become aware of how much and how rapidly things have changed since I was a kid. I occasionally tell my 7-year-old granddaughter about...

One of the great George Carlin’s routines was about “stuff”. Of course, it was really about materialism, a commentary on our penchant for accumulating … uh … stuff. We don’t...

I sat next to a very nice lady from Texas on my recent flight back to Maui from Los Angeles and, unlike most flights, we actually had some conversation. She...

Everyone knows there’s gridlock in Washington. Much of it has to do with proposals and projects that are in conflict with political ideologies … with a philosophy of governance.  ...