Yeah, yeah, I know today’s the first full day of “Spring,” but I can’t seem to keep my mind from leaping forward a few seasons. You see, I recently finished, yes FINISHED, the final full revision and complete edit of three one-act Christmas plays. These one-act plays...
As a consumer, what’s the first thing you do when a product or service falls far beneath your expectations? If you’re like most people, you complain about it. But to whom? If your dissatisfaction goes no further than whining, ad nauseum, to your friends, you’re...
If you’ve been paying attention here, you know I have a real penchant for palm trees. Hawaiian palms, tall and lithe, Samoan palms, short and sturdy, fan palms with their solid, flat fronds. I love them all and feel inexplicably happy whenever I see them. Today is St....
The written Hawaiian language contains only 12 letters. Five are vowels: a, e, i, o, u. These vowels may LOOK like the vowels we use in English, but the sounds they make are different. (ah – eye – eee – oh – ooo) The remaining seven letters are consonants: h, k, l, m,...
Last Thursday I returned from 10 terrific days in Hawaii. The average daily temperature hovered near 80 degrees, and at night the lows came in right around 68. I’m quite sure they use the same temperature ranges in heaven. When I left the mainland, it was snowing in...
