John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1917-1963 Since November 22, 1963, I have lost both of my parents, other relatives, and some good friends, but nothing has ever come close to the devastation I felt on that day. I can’t imagine that anything ever will. In the early 1960s, I ran the Alumni Office at Iolani…
Back in the early 1960s when I first arrived in Hawaii, Honolulu International Airport (it was John Rogers Field back then) had six—Count ‘em: six!—parking spots for the huge, new Boeing 707 jets that had started coming here. They were bringing a lot more tourists and also a lot of people like me who…
Typos make me crazy. And not just typos. Misspellings and grammatical mistakes, too. You labor over a piece of writing—whether it’s one of these posts, an article for a magazine or a letter-to-the-editor—and when it’s published and too late to do anything about it, there it is. The obscure thing you missed even though you…
Any of us who do any kind of writing — for fun, for occasional income, or as a full-time living — have our own personal horror stories involving typos … typographical errors. They’re easy to create – all it takes is inadvertently hitting the wrong letter on the keyboard – and damn hard to spot….