The Happiest Man: Alvin Wong
We check in with 2011’s happiest man in America.
New York Times
Hey, Hawaii, you happy?
Despite my crazy schedule and severe lack of sleep, I’m pretty happy.I can surf before work, walk to Foodland for groceries, take my dogs to a nearby off-leash dog park and indulge in just about any food craving I can…
No more ‘your way’
Remember that Burger King promise, “Have it your way”?Well, turns out restaurants and diners around the country are opting for exactly the opposite, taking control of their menus and dining experiences and telling the customer to just shut up and…
Your dream destinations for 2011
Every January I look forward to the New York Times’ list of must-see places that year.The newspaper picked 41 locales for 2011, ranging from little coastline town of Sopot in Poland to the historic town of Pingyao in China. Even…
TV, make it stop!
We watch too much TV.I’m not kidding.We, as Americans, watched an average of 34 hours a week last year. That’s more than a part-time job! And it amounts to the most TV consumption by Americans ever, according to the Nielsen…
Training 2-year-olds? Why not!
When I was growing up, I did normal kid things like play on monkey bars and ride my bike into telephone poles.I didn’t get into competitive sports — if you could even call it that — until I was in fourth grade,…
Here’s a secret: don’t bathe
My entire life I’ve been told — sometimes forced — to take a bath.It’s something we, as Americans, do every day — Hawaii folks prefer evenings to mornings — as part of our personal hygiene ritual. We shower, we brush our teeth,…
‘Long hair not appropriate for grown-ups’
The New York Times published an essay by writer Dominique Browning last week that begged the question, “Why can’t middle-aged women have long hair?”Especially long gray hair.It got me thinking about middle-aged (or older) women I knew and, hmm, she…
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