Rick Schultze

Bridging Rainbow’s On July 30th 1970 in a horse pasture just above Dairy Road on the slopes of Haleakala, the volcano the makes up 75% of the island of Maui, Hawaii Jimi Hendrix played a free concert which became known as “The Rainbow Bridge Concert”. A film of the concert was directed by Chuck Wein…

Aircraft Carriers and Skate Boards There was a big move in my life recently, my girlfriends’ daughter and 15 year old Grandson Frankie moved from Portland and leased an apartment in the village we live in. The daughter has a new job at a resort and Frankie is starting at a new high school. It’s…

Blinded by The Light I know this might sound odd but today as I sit pondering my next column I find myself at odds with the Magnificent Sun which has seldom been seen in the area recently. Here on the coast it’s been cold, damp, and generally uncomfortable for the last couple of months and…

Okay, who will be the winner? Well if that isn’t a wide open question I don’t know what is. I mean who is going to win what? The NCAA college basketball tournament? The Major League baseball season? The hundred yard dash in the upcoming Olympics to be held in a heavily polluted and human rights…

Hipper Becoming Hip! hipGetting all the tests and paperwork in order before my hip surgery had taken its toll since I have very little patience when it comes to making phone calls and playing phone tag. However, that turned out to be a blessing in disguise because the night before surgery I was too worn…

Hold on I’m coming was what the storm of December 2007 was saying and people were listening. All the weather services and media predicted a big one triggering memories of the famous Columbus Day storm of 1962 and the winds and flooding of 1995/6. So as the timeline approached the word “hunker down” became appropriate….

Gettin Hip How hip is hip? When I was a kid “being hip” was the coolest status you could get. The hip people dictated the way people dressed, what kind of music was cool and they mastered the art of looking down their noises at the non-hip. Fortunately or unfortunately I was never embraced by…

As is often the case hearing a song will bring back memories and recently I heard the 1969 hit “Let The Sunshine in” by the Fifth Dimension from the musical Hair. Actually it was part of a medley “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine in” and it was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks…

Today I spotted Krokos and Daffodils bursting forth outside and the sight of them knocked my internal clock into the Springtime mode. I know it’s not “officially” Spring, but when the sun breaks up the bleak, wet, weather I start mulling over the Choices I have. Like for instance; talking a walk, washing the salt…

In the past few days there has been a lot of conversation about Microsoft’s proposed buy-out of Yahoo at what they say will be a cost of $44.6 Billion dollars. That ought to point out the impact of the internet and the different search/e-mail sites. Google, the other big one, is opposed to the buy-out…