KYOTO – The Land of the Rising Sun is also The Land of Many Bows. So I was reminded on a recent trip to Japan, my third in three years (a string I hope to continue next year). People bow to one another all the time – the formal from-the-waist bow, such as you receive [...]
He didn’t actually say “Golleeee!” but his soft Alabama drawl had a definite Gomer-esque tone when Jim Nabors exclaimed over the phone: “This was the No. 1 story all over the news yesterday! Can you believe that?” The story, of course, is that Jim and longtime partner Stan Cadwallader, a former Honolulu firefighter and a [...]
The story of Wally Yonamine – one of seven local players being honored at the Pro Bowl Sunday (see Page 20 or click here) – cannot be told without including his wife Jane. Yes, Wally had already spent a year playing for the San Francisco 49ers when he met her. But as talented and driven [...]
I enjoy shooting guns. A lot. And I feel fortunate to have grown up around guns – and hunters – in my family and in my neighborhood. Hunter safety was part of my Boy Scout training. I was introduced to my first .357 Magnum in college. Before coming to Hawaii 33 years ago, I was [...]
(Note: I do not anticipate this being my final MidWeek column. Then again, just in case … thanks, it’s been great.) I am no expert in the Mayan calendar that is causing rampant rumors about the world ending Friday. But I have discussed this topic with a medicine man of the Hopi people, who are [...]
Having edited Bob Jones’ column for 18 years, and having just finished reading his book Reporter, I wish he would have run the galleys past me before publishing. Then again, part of the book’s appeal is that it is Bob entirely unfiltered, AP Style Book be damned. And while Bob has been writing a column [...]
It wasn’t my idea – really, it wasn’t – to put Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota, a local boy, on the MidWeek cover. I don’t have enough brass to ask my bosses to send me to Oregon, where I was born and attended journalism school, to watch my favorite college football team play a game. (UH [...]
When was the last time you heard something that made you change your mind on a particular topic? Maybe it was after coming across a new fact, or hearing a cogent argument that gave you new insight, or maybe just your own reconsideration of what you know. Or maybe you don’t seek new information or [...]
I considered writing about my daughter Dawn’s July 28 marriage to Kalei Luat. I’d written about other moments as she and her brother grew up, including her first day of kindergarten at Kamehameha. But this was such a big occasion, and so emotional, I didn’t know where to start. Then I was talking with MidWeek [...]
This is the second in a two-part series on my recent visit to Japan, the second in 15 months. I like old stuff, which is one of the reasons I enjoy visiting Japan, a land that from the beginning of time seems to have been high-tech, whatever the newest tech happened to be. My affection [...]
