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 local TV news programs rarely included weather reports. There was no need. The guy delivering the news gave the forecast and It was almost always…
No matter where any of us live, we occasionally find ourselves in a rut. And that often means we’ve slipped into a mindless routine and forgotten what it was about our town or city that we once found interesting or exciting. During the years when my wife and I lived on Oahu, we would…
My wife and I have been retired and living on Maui for 16 years, but most of our very good friends are still on Oahu. With a little more than 100 miles of ocean separating us, we don’t see them nearly as often as we’d like. And so, this weekend we’re indulging ourselves with a…
Times change. Places change. And I suppose the older we get the more we tend to think wistfully about how things used to be. Fifty years ago, Hawaii was much different. The conventional wisdom is that two things happened in 1959 that changed everything for Hawaii. First, we became a state. And second, the…