Today’s column is about jury duty. OK, stop right there. I hear your groans. I see your eyes rolling back into your heads. And I can read your minds as you cast about for all the reasons you can come up with that might get you excused. Too busy. Can’t get a baby-sitter. English isn’t [...]
You don’t have to be a psychologist to know that what happened the night of April 30 was a tragedy. A young woman screams on dark and not-quite-deserted Sandy Beach. A man hears and comes to her aid, only to be told she’s fine, go away. Shortly after that, a woman brings a newborn to [...]
When the biggies get it wrong, they really get it wrong. There was a brief time when CNN, the AP and Fox were all over the “news” that a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings had been identified. Not just identified, but taken into custody. Not just taken into custody, but arrested and about to [...]
I am in love. Obsessed. Definitely in over my head. Yeah, I’ve been bitten, and I’ve got I bad. It’s like a fever I can’t medicate away. And you know what? I don’t care. Because I’ve got a hobby. And it took me by surprise, because I’ve never had one before. But now at the [...]
I recently spent time with a friend who came to visit all the way from cold, snowy Finland. We did what tourists do, which as a local I find refreshing and fun. In fact, everywhere we went my friend Mia pointed out things I had almost forgotten to appreciate. The colors, she exclaimed, over and [...]
Leland Kim and his partner Leif Malcomson had planned and dreamed and trained for months – and it was finally happening. Kim, a science writer, and Malcomson, an engineer, boarded a plane in San Francisco and flew to the opposite side of the country to do two momentous things: run the New York City Marathon [...]
In the end, we did come together. And it wasn’t the end of the election that did it. It was a disaster with a misleadingly bland moniker – Sandy. Sandy is, now and forever, synonymous with catastrophe, destruction and death. It is simply not possible to exaggerate or overstate the destruction wrought by the “superstorm.” [...]
This is Bullying Prevention Awareness month. It’s a topic our family knows about – now. Our family was fortunate. Once people at our son’s school knew about it, they jumped right on the situation and it was resolved. But before our son reported it to them, he told us, his parents. But we gave him [...]
Chris Pascua is 12 years old, and I think – in fact, I’m pretty sure – he’s going to change the world. I didn’t know that, of course, when I first met up with him and his mom, Atina, at Starbucks in Mililani. He looked like any other kid his age. He likes video games [...]
My husband’s birthday came around and his sister threw him a party. It was potluck, the best kind of party. I went a little crazy and brought quiche. Eight of them. The fact that I spent hours over two days prepping and then baking quiche doesn’t astonish me. The fact that I found so much [...]
