Late January is summer in the Kingdom of Swaziland – and seriously hot. It’s also when poisonous black mamba snakes..

When a major crisis occurs, it should cause us to reflect on and assess personal priorities. We often do –..

I received some really great news recently: My friend Ann with breast cancer is now cancer-free. Her breast cancer diagnosis..

After watching the film Waiting for Superman the must-see documentary that takes on the failing state of U.S. education the..

Editor’s note: For a related story, please see Marta Lane’s Tastes of Kaua’i on page 8. Last August, when I..

“You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.” – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar A few weeks ago, our grandsons, 7 and..

Rufus, one of our yellow Labmix dogs, sheds a whole new dog every week. No kidding. Thankfully, his litter-mate sister..

Lucy wanted to fly to the Mainland for Christmas to visit family – in fact, some relatives she had never..

When the news media reports the nation’s unemployment rate – still about 9.6 percent – it fails to account for..