A huge shout out, hug, aloha and mahalo to all of our teachers. As my children were readying to begin their first day of online school at Hawthorne Elementary, wailing gusts were blowing by our home.

Neal Tonken taught me English in 10 th grade. He changed my life. He died last week. I don’t remember what he taught me about how to start an essay, but that’s the way he would have started it.