Editor s Page: The 2021 Best of HONOLULU Issue honolulumagazine.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from honolulumagazine.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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or the first seven months working from home, I was surrounded by my failures. We had set up a makeshift office in our loft, which over the years had come to resemble an oversized junk drawer. My chair faced a pile of boxes filled with clothes and books my girls had outgrown, holiday decorations and kids crafts with bags of yet-to-be shredded bills teetering on top. The nearby futon couch was buried under old toys and myriad items that had been stashed upstairs during family parties and never taken back down. Everywhere I looked, I saw something that I had neglected to organize, donate or toss. It stressed me out until we finally cleared the room, bought new furniture and set up storage. The framed family photos that replaced the clutter in front of me have done wonders for my mood.
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Editor’s Page: What Were You Doing in March 2020?
Remembering one year.
On March 30, 2020, I wrote these words for the editor’s page of our May 2020 issue: “[W]e are in the fifth day of a statewide lockdown. … Hopefully, by the time this magazine arrives on newsstands in May, the biggest questions and concerns about COVID-19 will be in the rearview mirror.
Right now, however, talk about the new virus dominates not only the news but almost every conversation I have.” Reading those sentences now, they are almost laughable. We had no idea what was coming.
For many of us, the time passed in a blur. As we looked back at the year since the first COVID-19 case was diagnosed in Hawai‘i, reflecting on the upheaval of the past 12 months was at turns startling, sobering (will we fix the problems that troubled us in 2020?) and absorbing. And, as we all consciously did last year, our team also sought out moments of light through stories of those who inspired and endure