Another wet December morning in Kaaawa. And almost the end of another year. Notice the negative spin there? Why didn’t I say, “almost the beginning of another new year”? The latter is really the way we view the world in practice. The former is what my keyboard just produced. “Just lay down on the couch, [...]
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Merry Christmas, folks! The cats are enjoying their holiday catnip, along with an extra taste of canned food, always a treat. And here are a few things from the ghost of Christmas past that you may enjoy. First, enjoy a quick listen to my Kaaawa Christmas poem, written in 2002 and last revised when Leo [...]
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Remember that photo of women at Pearl Harbor apparently fighting a fire that MSNBC was trying to find out about? I mentioned it here back on December 9. Well, it didn’t take long for investigative reporter Bill Dedman to ferret out the real story by tracking down one of the women. So the bottom line: [...]
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I highly recommend Larry Geller’s long and detailed analysis of failed or simply missing efforts to improve pedestrian safety in Hawaii, posted yesterday at his DisappearedNews.com. Larry picks apart, in excruciating detail, the various excuses given for bureaucratic inaction in the face of pedestrian fatalities, and adds photos to illustrate particular problems. One issue Larry [...]
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My knees and I used to be friends. After all, I made it through the high risk period, back when I played basketball, without scalpel or scar, unlike a lot of my friends. Perhaps I failed to pay enough attention to my knees, which tend to be overlooked when they are working just fine. Perhaps [...]
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Here’s my favorite quote that surfaced yesterday: Arizona State Senator Lori Klein, Herman Cain’s Arizona campaign chair, quoted by CBS News: In politics, she said, “we want a virgin to do a hooker’s job.” Ooops. An abbreviated version of this entry was posted by accident this morning. Isn’t language a great thing? That third-person phrasing [...]
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A week ago, we were visiting friends in Northern Virginia in advance of Meda’s American Society of Criminology annual meeting. Mornings were cool, and we followed a trail that led around Burke Lake. Leaves were still spreading fall colors across the landscape. We got back to Hawaii late on Friday, and for the past two [...]
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We’ve been away from home this week, so I don’t have any updates on our Kaaawa cats. But we spent the weekend before Meda’s conference with friends and their two cats, Sally & Sylvester, who have agreed to make a guest appearance on this Feline Friday. Actually, Sylvester just has a small supporting role, while [...]
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