Almost everyone can point to a memory of the last place they traveled to on vacation before COVID arrived in the United States in early 2020. Looking through some photos this week, I noted that my last overseas trip was to Switzerland and Italy in July 2019, which seems a lifetime ago…

I’m fascinated by many things about islands, and not just the touristy parts of them. Hawaii, for example, is a beautiful place, and offers so much to see that you can’t take it all in during just one visit. But it also strikes me as an interesting place to live and work, with the practicalities of housing, shopping, finding health care, and all the other routine facets of daily living being both graced and challenged by being on an island…