Keoni and I make a running joke about his age---not because he's incredibly old (though of course that's the joke), but because he was in college when I was born... So I tease him that when he used to carry girls' books after school, they were clay tablets... Or that his birth certificate was chiseled … Continue reading Project Petroglyph
Category: Family
Hau’oli la Hanau! (35)
Thirty-five years ago today, my mother employed her primary Superpower and made a person. A day or two later I was introduced to a lifetime companion and playmate and co-conspirator and friend: my sister Karin. (She guides people's pronunciation with this clue: "You park a KAR-in the garage.") I turned three just a few weeks … Continue reading Hau’oli la Hanau! (35)
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!
According to my Urban Dictionary, the above phrase dates from early days in Las Vegas, when a standard gambling bet was two dollars, and most casinos offered a three-piece chicken dinner for $1.79. Anyone who won a bet would have the price of a chicken dinner (winner winner)! One of our neighboring Idaho towns has put another … Continue reading Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!
Pushed Over the Edge?
Um, wow. I posted the other day without even thinking about how differently my topic would come across to various of my "international audience" of blogging-buddies. Lots of food for thought in the ensuing commentary... The dodgy topic: my "Concealed Carry" handgun class. (There, I'm being more "international" today---dodgy isn't an American term. I looked … Continue reading Pushed Over the Edge?
Pushing Past a Comfort Zone
I've been laboring under a peculiar species of Writers' Block for the last two weeks. It's not that I haven't had the inclination or the material for writing, but there's Something Important that I need to write about---that I want to write about---but am apparently not ready to write about. And I've felt like I couldn't (or … Continue reading Pushing Past a Comfort Zone
The Death of Malaise
Malaise, n. a vague or unfocused feeling of mental uneasiness,lethargy, or discomfort. If I remember correctly, my younger sister once had a gerbil which she named "Malaise." It would have been somewhere around junior-high time for her, and she acquired the gerbil during a period of, well... malaise. If I remember correctly, our cat dragged that gerbil backward out of the cage by its tail … Continue reading The Death of Malaise
Hill-Climbing, Hummingbirds, and Handguns
This evening, a particular piece of kid-art caught my eye. We have their notes and drawings tacked up all over the place---on the walls, on the fridge---but when something is always there you sometimes stop seeing it. That's the case with this piece , carefully dated 8-2-11 (almost exactly a year ago) with sticker-letters spelling … Continue reading Hill-Climbing, Hummingbirds, and Handguns
Kana's Chronicles 