Today we observe Veterans Day ( Read more... )

“What is it the hangers-on fear? Can it be that I have alarmed them by saying that government should be run without influence or favor…that the government should belong equally to all of our people, both the humble and the mighty; that these fair Islands are ours to treat with reverence and pass on to our children, and they are not to be destroyed ( Read more... )

I woke up on a warm and stunningly beautiful Saturday morning and stumbled out into the kitchen to join Gary and Susan for a breakfast of English muffins with guava jelly, boiled eggs, sausage, and fruit salad made of fresh pineapple, apple bananas, and dried cranberries and some half-awake pondering of the stories in the Honolulu Advertiser. ( Read more... )

So this morning I got some unplanned exercise. I was running a few minutes late so I ended up jogging ten minutes to Barbur Transit Center, carrying a heavy backpack. So that was fun ( Read more... )

I don't think I'm ever going to be able to ride an airplane without thinking of Margot and The Nuclear So & So's, ever again ( Read more... )

Yeah, so not going to the Coast this weekend. Oh well. Some other time ( Read more... )

I have had SUCH A CRAPPY DAY ( Read more... )

Today at 10:47 a.m. Hawaii Time, Thomas Ponce Gill, my grandfather, passed away in his hospital bed. His wife was with him, and his oldest son, and his youngest son ( Read more... )