Paradise ponders...   We've been visiting Tim D., our friend and neighbor, in the hospital every day.  He had back surgery to fuse three...

An accidental discovery...   While on our recent trip to Hawai'i, we stopped in at a coffee and tea shop to stock up for the mornings in...

Slow blogging for a few days, most likely...   I'm catching up on the huge pile of paperwork and backlog of stuff put off while we were ...

Excellent...

Some advice for liberals ... on Carryn Owens' moment in the spotlight last night .  The author is Mary Katharine Ham, also widowed (und...

Home, we are, safe and sound...  But not without a bit of drama!  Just before we boarded our plane in Kona, we heard an announcement.  Our ...

A really great last day...   I'm writing this from the gate area of Kona Airport in Hawai'i, where Debbie and I are bored to tears w...

A day around Pahala and Na'alehu...   Today was partly a repeat of past favorite drives on this trip, and part exploring new territory. ...

A botanical garden repeat...   Today we repeated a day we had last week, at the Hawai'i Tropical Botanical Gardens.  It wasn't compl...