Last April, I wrote about a man’s search for his cousins, who he believed had lived in Hawaii at one time. Barry Tabel search was launched after he found old family photos among his mother’s possessions after her death. He thought that his cousins, who he never met, would be in their 60s. Finally, just [...]
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Time passes. We are beginning our 17th year of walking down to the beach every morning to watch the sunrise. We can trace our morning walks back to early 1996. We had started several months earlier, pushed into it by a friend and neighbor. At first, we were tired after a few blocks, but built [...]
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Meda and I share one car. Yesterday was a day when I had the car, so at the end of the day I headed up to the UH Manoa campus to pick her up. I parked downstairs in front of her building, and then just texted her that I had arrived. Then I looked down. [...]
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Here are several diverse items to start your weekend. • From a NY Times story forwarded by former neighbor Bob (“Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery“): “If a company has significant intellectual property that the Chinese and Russians are interested in, and you go over there with mobile devices, your devices will get [...]
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When I’m short of cat photos for Feline Friday, I take a camera with me out into the yard in the mid-to-late afternoon. The cats follow. I feel liked the Pied Piper, with the camera as my magic instrument. The cats seem to know that they’re going to be on camera, and they enjoy it. [...]
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We received word yesterday that Professor George Ball, simply “Dr. Ball” to generations of Whitman College students over five decades, died on New Year’s Day at age 96. He was a quiet man, a fixture on the small campus in Walla Walla, Washington, who left an indelible impression on many over the years. The Seattle [...]
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I dug out a few more photos from the archives. The first was taken 40 years ago tonight. Meda and I were living in a small, two bedroom apartment in what was then known as the Circle Jade, the unusual round apartment building on 9th Avenue in Kaimuki. It’s now a condominium. In those days [...]
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This notice was sent out today, announcing elevator repairs that will leave only one of the three elevators functioning in one of UH Manoa’s major classroom buildings. The elevator outage is expected to last for two days. Perhaps they didn’t notice that this will be the first week of classes at UH Manoa, always a [...]
