Month: June 2019

I was frenzied!  I was rushing to Waipahu High School to give a presentation on the technology that we had implemented at the Getty Center.  While I was getting dressed I realized that I didn’t have any dark colored socks . . just white athletic socks.   I didn’t think it would be right to … Read moreMy Kingdom for A Black Sock

A leaf fell from an Acacia tree.  It was yellow.  It floated in the wind and settled gently onto a green at the Doral Country Club.  Unbeknownst to this happy leaf, Phil Mickelson had stroked a critical birdie putt toward the hole moments before.   The leaf landed and basked in the sun for an … Read moreA Leaf at Doral

Throughout my life I have always felt that it was best to address medical issues immediately . . try to resolve it before it gets worse!    I haven’t always been successful at this strategy, but I thought it was the best approach.   I felt it was important to know what the issues were . … Read moreA Pill In My Pocket

I was taking with Randy Hiraki, one of my best friends for almost sixty years.  He has a military background and I respect his views enormously.  However, when the subject turned to the current Presidency, we disagreed . . (politely  😊).   I am of the opinion that Mr. President is a low IQ person … Read morePresident Trump Is Just Low on the IQ Scale

In the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the beginning of WWII, tensions had been rising because of the expansionist policies of the Japanese through the 1930’s.  The Japanese invasion of French Indo-China was one of the final straws for the United States.   This resulted in an embargo of oil by the … Read moreYou Have To Be Able To Read To Understand The Lessons of History

Let’s face it.  Everyone thinks their ideas, opinions, way of being is the best.  They may tolerate other ideas, love other ideas, hate other ideas, try to destroy others who don’t share their ideas, but, in the end, they believe their ideas are the best.  Everyone thinks so.   And, who’s to say?   Let’s … Read moreWho’s to Say?

There is a big pull to go back to the good old days.  This has always been present in the human mindset.   If you think about it, the old days were filled with world wars, polio, genocide, every type of sexual degradation that males could foist onto females, the massacres known as the Crusades, … Read moreThe Good Old Days

Republican politicians, evangelicals, Mafia wannabes, crooks, career bureaucrats are all vying to garner their one-minute of fame so they can parlay it for their own misguided, personal gain.   But, November 18th 1978 exposes an awful parallel.   Trumptown is slowly poisoning all that it touches, and no one will escape that final glass of … Read moreThat Final Glass of Kool Aid

I saw Simon and Garfunkel in concert twice, once at the Honolulu Civic Auditorium (now the site of the Blaisdell Center) when they were beginning to be popular in the early 60’s, and once at the Staples Center in Los Angeles in the early 2000’s. Before the concert at the Staples Center, Paul Simon was … Read moreSimon and Garfunkel at the Civic Auditorium

Truthfully, I hated English class.  And, it wasn’t just because I hated the hard-nosed, unwavering Miss Muratsuka, who had turned a moderately distasteful class into a daily 50 minute screeching, teeth gnashing, life-threatening experience.   No, it was because I hated all the nuances of English and the rules, with everything so fixed and unbending … Read moreMiss Muratsuka in New York