Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
III. Things have changed: Way back when
As the third in a series on my blog about how things have changed a lot since I was a kid, I’m reminded of a prof years ago at the University of Hawaii who told us that our personal “stories” or historical heritage begins with the memories of the oldest people we’ve known. If that’s […]
Wow! $2 gas again…
The other day in Honolulu (12/2008) I was so surprised to see gas at Costco — the one by Honolulu Community College — only cost about $2 a gallon for 87-octane; and that for the first time in a long time I sprang for premium grade. It only cost about $35 to fill up. This […]
More “poor man’s cruise”
[Blog entry and video by Mike Foley: Originally published June 30, 2009] An earlier blog entry “inspired” me to dig out my old Hi-8 video tapes and put together a little web video of our Alaskan adventure in June 2001. After a lifetime of still photography, I was just starting to get into video at this […]
BYUH holds Hawaiian conferences
[Story and photo by Mike Foley, originally published in Kaleo, September 10, 1998] The BYU-Hawaii kupuna conference begins with hula The BYUH Center for Hawaiian Language and Cultural Studies — more commonly called the Hawaiian Studies program — sponsored back-to-back conferences on two weekends in August to seek input and suggestions from kupuna and educators for […]