Riding on the Storm

In the indefinite light of evening, Signals flash from out along the bay, Seemingly as distant as a waking dream, And the long, low,...

I’m with my wife, Lauren, tonight, and she’s slowly dying. She had cancer and the result of the radiation treatment was that it killed too...

I'm going to do something a bit unusual for me here, and that's to just write down some brief thoughts about my life, my work, and ...

When the feminist movement started, in the early 1970's, America was completely male dominated and a great many men treated women like...

Liliuokalani Park, in Hilo, is named after an Hawaiian queen, but it's a traditional Japanese garden, designed by a master Japanese g...

2 July 2019 I'm writing in regard to the opioid crisis and its effects on our medical system. My wife was diagnosed last July with c...

Below is my December 29th letter in the Hilo Herald Tribune. I'm restoring my original title, which I liked better than the one they ...

"Give us your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore." It ...

Not long ago I read a book called 'Young Stalin,' about the early years of, you guessed it, Joseph Stalin. I've never been...

I wonder how many people know that solar technology was pioneered in my hometown. Yes, in Placitas, New Mexico, in the 1960's, and mor...