Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Electrifying!
The first sign on Friday evening, December 26, was a little flicker of the lights. I remember saying to my wife, Sally, I wonder if someone hit a telephone pole somewhere down the highway. Then a few minutes later the lights went out — then soon enough all over Oahu. Yup, for the second time […]
Hauula Elementary School centennial:
[Stories by Mike Foley, originally published in Kaleo on March 9, 2000, and March 23, 2000] It was five or six years before the first automobile, and more than a decade before the first airplane came to Hawaii that Hauula Elementary School started up in its current location. One hundred years later, the school will […]
A primer on Polynesian pronounciation…
When I first started learning Samoan in 1965, I soon discovered: It is totally unrelated to English or any other European language, except for ‘upu afakasi — borrowed or “half-caste” words. Please note, Samoa does not have a caste system, but the word afakasi refers to someone or something of mixed heritage. English speakers can […]
B-52 and other cockroach tales
I first became aware of cockroaches when I was in elementary school in Salt Lake City, Utah, and we learned to do the Mexican hat dance to the music of La Cucaracha for a May Day program. Since then, and even though I now know they are found in many places throughout the world, I […]