“Tell Them Mike Sent You” Mike is a rather modest man, even though he is the Chief of Staff for the Governor of Hawaii, who in between his other duties, which I feel certain are very important, makes time to steer misguided tourist in the right direction, and even snap their picture, standing...
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Who Will Decide if You are Entitled to an Address? Where do you live? What is your address? Who picked north or south, Elm or Maple, Washington or Lincoln as your street address? In the non-digital world, our address is significant, playing a role in determining everything from what schools are children...
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An Unexpected Tale I left Leona’s home feeling like a pyrotechnic display had been set off inside my brain; and I desperately wanted to share the dazzling spectacle with someone else. Kate had bore witness to the exchange, but as she was busy taping the whole affair; I do not think she was free...
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How’s the Weather? Ask IBM In the autumn of 2015, IBM, initials which initially stood for International Business Machines, made what might be considered a rather odd purchase, for a company today known as a leader in technology. IBM actually bought The Weather Company. The plan is to put the technology, called Watson AI...
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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” ~ Benjamin Franklin ~ Painting by Joseph Siffred – Duplesiss, North Carolina Museum of Art
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We’ll Always Have Paris “It was so nice to receive the note, from the Waldorf Astoria; it was a place where we spent so much time. Coming in from Baldwin, with Milton working on 5th Avenue and 48th Street, we would meet every Friday night at the Waldorf Astoria, after a cocktail, we would...
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Turn On the Light! What can I do to help? Those six words have been spoken a great deal in my home, during the last ten days. It has been a hard week, in fact, I would say one of the hardest weeks we have known in a very long time. We...
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A History There was a day in May, now many years passed, where I remember sitting in my senior seminar, at the university, reading, listening, and discussing my classmate’s dissertations – our last hurdle to graduation. There were comments about punctuation and grammar, the meaning of terms and their application to each...
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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest things I know.” ~ Ernest Hemingway ~ Painting by Henry Strater
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A Kind Deed “You can’t see the forest for the trees.” I woke up to a kitchen perfumed by a perfect lilac, it was given to me by my neighbors, after having shared a delightful dinner; I was told repeatedly, to please pick as many flowers as I liked. I am not sure from...
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