Ok- getting the title right is the first step in telling a story. And it is cold enough out there to freeze the balls off of a brass monkey. It was thirteen below, with wind chill, when I finally emerged from the safety of the bedchamber this morning. I listened with a sense of schadenfreude […]

Sorry- it is a gun show weekend and a shipmate of long-standing was moved to write in about the LT with the Pearl Handled Pistols attempting to gain access to a place he was not supposed to be. I have been concentrating on the lovely islands- there is a story in development about more of […]

(The Alexander Young Building on Bishop Street in downtown Honolulu. The place was on the register of Historic Buildings until it was torn down). Sorry- I have been telling you stories from the lovely islands, including the one that is (so far) incomplete. I mean it is complete, has been for 32 years, and the […]

The nurse stuck her head in and said the Doctor would stop by and break my wife’s bag of waters before he went to dinner in Pearl City. I wondered which one- the only place I could think of was the Monkey Bar, and that didn’t seem right, or maybe Buzz’s Original Steakhouse on the […]

(Author’s note: Above is a rainbow over the Dole Plantation outside Wahiawa, HI. And don’t be alarmed. This series of events occurred in 1983. I am in Athens, TN, because I am, and hope to be at the farm later). Despite the overwhelming evidence, I still wasn’t convinced this was the real thing. She was […]

January 22nd dawned still and clear. It was a perfect Hawaiian day, an ideal morning for idle yard-work and occasional refreshing lawn lager. I puttered heavily through the morning, bushwhacking and lopping at the luxuriant tropical jungle that threatened to overwhelm the little frame bungalow. The idea of the birth had slid to the back […]

(Rookie Angel Clarence confers with George Baily in the classic film “It’s a wonderful life. Photo Frank Capra courtesy Warner Brothers). Considering the body of information available on the Miracle in question- that being the birth of a child- I was amazed at the paucity of data on the objective start of onset of the […]

(THE HILTON HAWAIIAN VILLAGE, ORIGINAL HOME OF LEGENDARY SURFER DUKE KAHANAMOLU, WAS PURCHASED BY HENRY KAISER AFTER THE WAR, AND HOME TO THE FIRST MODERN WAIKIKI HOTEL COMPLEX. THE ALI’I TOWER NEAREST THE LAGOON WAS THE ENTRY AND DEPARTURE POINT FOR MILITARY FAMILIES COMING AND GOING FROM THE ISLANDS, SINCE HILTON HAD THE CONTRACT. PHOTO […]

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/navy-intel-officer-warns-of-future-china-conflict/ It is 65 and sunny in Pass Christian, MS, at the moment. Beef-On-Weak Night at Willow seems like a dream. Normally held on the last Friday of the month, this one slid to the fist Friday of February due to Restaurant Week and the looming of Lent. Tracy sold out two steamer rounds of […]

It was packed at the Willow bar. The weather had been warm and sunny the day before, and people decided it was safe to come out. As it developed, it wasn’t, but once out you may as well go inside someplace else, and they all appeared to have decided to join us, and formed a […]