I tease my husband Keoni that I married him for his cooking. Joke, of course... But seriously. When the two of us ran a restaurant together (Kana Girl's Hawai'ian BBQ) even men used to tell me that if I ever stepped aside, they wanted to marry him. Joking, of course... But seriously. The man is … Continue reading “Manscaping” the Kitchen
Month: October 2011
“Blog Packages” for your Family Vacation!
Last month my husband and I spent a week at Redfish Lodge in Idaho's Sawtooth mountains, courtesy of the magazine for which I'm writing. It was a great group of four core magazine staffers (The Editor, The Photographer, The Writer [me] and The Right Hand [a.k.a. Office Manager]), along with assorted spouses. My chef- husband … Continue reading “Blog Packages” for your Family Vacation!
On “Inheriting” a Cat
Grandpa has never been a cat person. He has been a serial monogomist with a succession of beloved dogs, including Buttons the beagle, whose oil portrait still hangs in his living room. (My mother notes that he has no painting of herself and her brothers, so we know how Grandpa's dogs have rated in his … Continue reading On “Inheriting” a Cat
Byways & Bygones: Idaho’s “Old Oregon Trail Byway”
Engine idling in the middle of the desert, we contemplate the pockmarked metal sign in front of us. Military Range, it declares, adding the instruction that civilian vehicles are to keep to the main road. Which leaves us with a question--what is the definition, out here, of a "main road"? Off to the side, a … Continue reading Byways & Bygones: Idaho’s “Old Oregon Trail Byway”
Recalculating
Mounted above the dash in Pat's car, a GPS device tracks our pre-programmed driving route from San Diego to Boise, Idaho. Whenever we veer from the pre-planned course--even to top off the gas tank or to empty one of the small backseat bladders (which of course operate on a rotating schedule)--a disapproving female voice informs … Continue reading Recalculating
The Care & Feeding of Books
"Their schooling over, readers were presumably qualified to make their own additions to the books in their care." --H.J. Jackson, in Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books "books as pets--pet dragons, maybe, or something exotic--care & feeding of your book" --scribbled note in my own (heavily annotated) copy of Marginalia I used to starve my books, … Continue reading The Care & Feeding of Books
Bang-up Spin-off: “An Assembly Such as This” (Idaho Writers series)
I suppose one way to measure the popularity of a Classic is to count the number of spin-offs it's spawned. Gauging by that measure, I'd have to say that Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice surpasses "popular" and rings in at "obsession;" a quick bookstore-search turned up more than 50 novels based on Austen's golden oldie. … Continue reading Bang-up Spin-off: “An Assembly Such as This” (Idaho Writers series)
Kana's Chronicles 