Views by the Bay

Brett hands a fork to a customer. Today was the church's annual meeting. It's mainly about finance, organizational, and personne...

Architect Alfred Preis (1911-1993) designed the USS Arizona Memorial. The "tree of life" sculpture at the main Visitors' C...

Producers hire tankers for long-term storage ( Arabnews ) The price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil has fallen from its 2011 peak o...

The "black preaching style" is mesmerizing. There's rhyming, there's rhythm, and there's call and response . Two siste...

24 years after it was decommissioned, the Missouri still inspires awe. The battleship is nearly three football-fields long (887.2 feet), ...

I wasn't too proud to gawk at the guitars. The Hard Rock Cafe menu is above average, but one doesn't come for the food. The wal...

I like Spam , and I like macadamia nuts, but not together. It's surprising that this combination made it from the tasting lab to the g...

2016 1995 “Upon this sacred spot, we honor the specific heroes who surrendered their lives...while they were in full bloom, so th...

I remember it being bigger. Continuing the retracement of my childhood, we made the turn from Hwy 83 along the North Shore into the Waim...

Central Valley sinkhole ( Ecowatch ) The problem: "voracious" groundwater pumping during the multiyear drought has caused th...

The beach is a few feet from the cabins I went (was actually dragged along by my parents) to the Episcopal Church's Camp Mokuleia t...

View of Ala Wai Canal from our condo Normally I stay with relatives but the January lodging-with-car deals were too good to pass up. Wal...

Excerpts from the Al Qaeda Training Manual show that they are well acquainted with Western culture: Security Precautions Related to Apart...

At the 1963 March on Washington ( ABC news ) The death of Martin Luther King, Jr., occurred when I was a teenager. I admired his speec...

The primates of the Anglican Communion. This development affects less than 1% of the population of the United States, but if you're ...