Skip to content

Kana's Chronicles

Life in Kana-text (er… CONtext)

  • About Kana
  • Kana’s Archives
  • Kana’s Books

Category: Nature

Sleepless in Hawai’i

sunsest at KOna
November 30, 2025December 2, 2025 ~ Kana Smith ~ 5 Comments

It's senseless to be sleepless after the day we just had. I should be knocked out and snoring full-bore, but I haven't slept. It's not distressing the way sleeplessness sometimes is. I've sat on the balcony with my head on my arms on a cushion on the ledge, just watching the waves under the half-moon. … Continue reading Sleepless in Hawai’i

Beat to Hell

writer underwater in SCUBA gear
November 16, 2025November 18, 2025 ~ Kana Smith ~ 10 Comments

It's only natural that most of us try to keep most of our possessions in unspoiled and "like-new" condition for as long as possible. We don't like it when our phone-screens get webbed with cracks, or the paint chips off our cars, or the knees go out in our jeans (well, maybe that's still fashionable … Continue reading Beat to Hell

Follow Kana's Chronicles on WordPress.com

151,029 hits

author on her sailboat

13 Adventure Backyard Homestead Barefoot Barter & Scrounge Biker Blogging Books Camping & Fishing Cats Cemeteries Chickens Coffee Dragon Family Freelancing God's Humor Hawai'i Home Economics Idaho iPad Language Lists Marriage Mental Health Names Navigation Neighbors OCD Oregon Trail Owl Packing Prayer Reading Recovery RV Life Sail & Sea Sustainable Living Synchronicity Tattoos Technology Travel Turquoise Work Writing

Kana is reading…

  • About Kana
  • Kana's Archives
  • Kana's Books

"As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."

~ Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

  1. Adventure Friendship's avatar
    Adventure Friendship on Now & ThenDecember 19, 2025

    Such a nice read! The way you’ve presented the sightseeing highlights is clear, engaging, and enjoyable.

  2. joannerambling's avatar
    joannerambling on Technology & the SickBed-NestDecember 18, 2025

    I am pleased you are improving, me I am feeling not the best but I expect that is the heat…

  3. Justin Stanelle's avatar
    Justin Stanelle on Technology & the SickBed-NestDecember 18, 2025

    You reminded me of how I used to watch The Price is Right when I stayed home sick from school.…

  4. CBD Flex's avatar
    CBD Flex on Technology & the SickBed-NestDecember 18, 2025

    👍👍👍

  5. Vero's avatar
    Vero on Technology & the SickBed-NestDecember 18, 2025

    Glad the cold was short-lived!

"It is not down on any map; true places never are"

~ Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

Technology & the SickBed-Nest Spenser “With an ‘S,’ Like the Poet” Now & Then Travel Day Hawai’i Day Eight: the Last Day Sun & sea at Honaunau Bay Hawai'i Day Five: a Beach Morning, a Verizon Afternoon, a Seafood Evening Hawai’i Day Four: UNDER the Water! Hawai’i Day Three: In the Water
  • Technology & the SickBed-Nest
  • The Accidental Cat Lady
  • Now & Then
  • Spenser "With an 'S,' Like the Poet"
  • One of My Very Bad Habits
  • How to Bury an Owl
  • When you Assume... you make an ASS out of U & ME
  • Travel Day
  • Food-Stamp Kitchen Chemistry #1: Jewelry Cleaner
  • Marginalia & Time-Travel

"Not all those who wander are lost."

~J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Website Powered by WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Kana's Chronicles
    • Join 2,434 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Kana's Chronicles
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...