Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Waikiki cabby days: late 60’s
[By Mike Foley, originally published May 10, 2009] My wife, Sally, and I wanted to go to a certain restaurant yesterday, and because it was the closest one to where we were in Honolulu, we ended up on Kuhio Avenue (a block mauka of the beach) in Waikiki and right across the street from one […]
Author-educator urges servant leadership
[Story and photo by Mike Foley, originally published online in the BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, March 27, 2007] Dr. Kent M. Keith [pictured at left], who in 1968 wrote a series of “paradoxical commandments” as a teenage undergraduate at Harvard that have since spread across the globe and formed the basis for several current best-selling books, urged […]
Polynesian caviar, anyone?
We don’t get it naturally here in Hawaii, as far as I know, but I recently saw a post on one of the popular social media websites reminding me that for some of our South Pacific island cousins, this is the season of “Polynesian caviar” — palolo.
Times and things have changed: Part 1
Depending on how old you are and where you come from, some aspects of our lives have changed a lot over the years — largely due to advances in science and technology. For example, when I was a kid in the early 1950s, practically everybody on our block used a “party line.” If you don’t […]