I like staying in good hotels. I like the clean, efficient rooms with wi-fi and little soaps in fancy boxes and the instant hot water in the showers. And I...

I still find it hard to grasp that tonight I’ll go to bed on Maui, tomorrow night I will be in Los Angeles, and on Wednesday, after a fine dinner...

I’ve always been interested in the origins of surnames. It goes back to when the subject was brought up in school – way back in the 5th grade in Bloomfield,...

Here in the Islands, we call this little guy a kolea … the Hawaiian word for plover. Or, as the serious ornithologists prefer, a Pacific Golden Plover. We’ve had a...