Recent Entries

• Celebrating another trip around the sun…!

  October 16, 2022

  Aloha and Greetings from the southern coast of Oregon... Today is the anniversary of the day I came into this world... and I thank God and my parents for this... My plans for the day: Football... watch the 49ers play the Falcons on T/V... and who knows... the Niners just may win...! (nope... they...

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• Remember me…

  July 17, 2021

  Aloha... I'm still alive... but (obviously) don't write much here on O.D. I'm active with the Lincoln Project on Facebook and post pictures and videos on my site... Where I live on the Southern coast of Oregon... I chair the Human Resources department at the Chetco Activity Center... finally afte...

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• Speaking Pidgin…

  February 19, 2021

  Happy Aloha Friday...! Pidgin: Aloha… When I first visited the islands in the early 60s… there was a language spoken that I didn’t quite understand… pidgin… spoken by locals… and rarely understood by a haole like myself… So here goes a small sample of what I encountered: ‘Ass why i wen put ‘um to...

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• Single Awareness Day

  February 14, 2021

  Aloha… Celebrating “Single Awareness Day” here on the southern coast of Oregon… Also…I offer up two snippets of information: The first is that this is the 162nd anniversary of my adoptive state… The second is to wish you a Hau’oli la Aloha (Happy love day in Hawaiian)…! (smiles) The Hawaiian lang...

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• Aloha nui loa…

  February 12, 2021

  Happy Aloha Friday... This is the oceanfront pool at Puamana... I had the good (great) fortune to live at Puamana for four years... 2000-2004... and looking back at that time... it was probably the best four years of my life... I spent many an hour on a chaise lounge... reading my book... then sw...

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• Fog on the coast…

  May 12, 2020

  Aloha... A foggy and overcast morning with more rain on the way here on the southern coast of Oregon:

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• Just for today…

  May 10, 2020

  Okay... here goes: It's Mother's day and I want to wish each of you moms a Hau'oli la o na Makuahine (which is Happy Mother's day in Hawaiian)... Me ke aloha...

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• Aloha

  April 12, 2020

  Aloha... “Hau'oli Lā I Ala Hou Ai Ka Haku” which is Happy Day of the Rising Again of the Lord in Hawaiian...

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• My Car…

  March 8, 2020

  Aloha… It has been a cool (50f) and overcast day today… but the sunny days are coming starting tomorrow… So… today I decided to wash the Honda… Backed it out of the garage… put Hawaiian music on the stereo… and started working (playing) with the car… My neighbors smile at my endeavor… but that’s ...

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