Word has traveled quickly that just because you’re on island doesn’t mean you have to be stranded—as long as you have cash.

You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present.

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had...

When a beautiful blonde asks, you don’t say no.

You are to me like white islands, in a world of vast darkness.

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater.We could breathe and talk to one another.We rowed past schools of fish and sea anemones and Moses named them for me.”—Jules Finn

The late 1920s were an age of islands, real and metaphorical. They were an age when Americans by thousands and tens of thousands were scheming to take the next boat for the South Seas or...

The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive, even if he were convinced, to carry it out. His muscles would like...

too young to live, too old to die

Vast tracts of ocean, whether Polynesia, Micronesia or Melanesia, contain island populations that remain outside the modern world. They know about it, they may have traveled to it, they appreciate artifacts and medical help from...

Every island to a child is a treasure island.

Paradise” is a suffering word, grossly overused and ineptly devalued in everyday hype and blurb. Yet, tired as it is, it will have to do. Nothing else conveys that sense of place that can inspire...

No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other’s tragedies. We are insulated (a word that means, literally, remember, made...

People don’t live like islands.

Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island, they had learnt how to deal with history, how to sling...

What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don’t need to be wasted on naming things.

Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands.