My mother—pretty much until the day she died at age 93—was always able to cut through the B.S. and put her finger squarely on the nub of the problem. And especially in her later years, she thought the cause of most all our troubles—whether galactic in scope or some neighborhood dispute—was simply that there are…
I’m pretty much confined to quarters, although I will admit that I do understand it’s one thing if your “confinement” is to a small apartment and I have nothing but honest admiration for the families that are coping with this damn virus under conditions like that. My confinement is to 4.5-acre parcel on Maui. Despite…
I’ve had several inquiries over the past few weeks from folks wanting to know what the on-board services are like on Amtrak’s long-distance trains. The answer to that is . . . I think I know, but please remember that I’m stuck out here in the middle of the Pacific, almost three thousand miles from…
It’s 2500 miles from here to the U.S.mainland . . . and that’s just to California. It’s another 2,000–3,000 miles to mainland cities in the mid-west and on the east coast. Our governor, David Ige, has issued orders that visitors arriving here will be quarantined for 14 days . . . and that means confined…