Kana's Chronicles
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Thanks for sharing this post. I can relate, for sure!
I’m with you with reading but I don’t read as mum as my sister Sue My brain spends a lot…
I do enjoy each obsession as it’s upon me… But I will say that some of them are more USEFUL…
Ahhh the mind of a creative. Nice to have you back! My husband and I both do the same thing…
Author: Kana Smith
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Two years ago today my hubby and I scheduled our anniversary. That is to say, we scampered over to the courthouse (for a HAPPY reason–a novelty in itself for a pair of recovering alcoholics like us) and tied the knot. Lucky Thirteen, that’s our anniversary. Never mind that it was a Tuesday morning–clearly we’re not…
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Well, just for a minute, then. I did take the step yesterday of adding my name to the rolls of the Certifiably Insane, also known as NaNoWriMo Participants–and even went so far as to publicly admit to my foolishness with a participant-badge on the side of my blog. [def. NaNoWriMo Participant: (n.) crazy-ass writer who…
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[This post is featured as a “guest blog” at Clan Elves of the Bitterroots. Please stop by to check out their other authors!] Surely I have the world’s best job: I get to Travel, and I get to Write about it. My Travel Sidekick (a.k.a. Husband) and I have sketched out some “road rules” for…
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My sister and I grew up with a shared fascination for cemeteries. We loved “browsing” headstones, intrigued by the family groupings, the ages to which people lived (graveyards are no doubt responsible for my earlier math skills, as well as my “fluency” in Roman numerals), and the given names that were popular at different times.…
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While I’m in line at the visitors’ window of our county jail, I’m invariably asked by another collared personage what church I serve. My most honest answer is “The Little Converted Crack-House,” which is how we jokingly refer to our A.A. home group. (Before I joined the Recovery Community, I actually assumed this bustling little…
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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…
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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…
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what an apt description–I know that feeling too! Like thumbing the wheel of a lighter when there’s not enough fuel…