This is my second installment of playing with researching social networking websites and sharing the "field notes." After my first installment (Expedition Journal #1: Prospecting on Pinterest), a couple folks posed the eminently reasonable question of why we go looking for more things to fill our time (and Inbox) when we're already bombarded by so much … Continue reading Expedition Journal #2: Fishing for a Photo Site
Category: Today’s File
Blogging Tips: Growing a Readership
Blogging isn't intended to be a numbers-game, but most of us would be lying if we said we didn't note our own numbers. (See "Confessions of a Statistics Slut" for proof of my own profligacy in this regard...) A blogging-friend asked the other day about growing a readership on WordPress, so here's what I have … Continue reading Blogging Tips: Growing a Readership
One of the most amazing things about blogging is the network of FRIENDS I've found here--people I know and love even though I haven't "technically" met them. One of those dear friends is Kathryn McCullough, whose post on a "Very Bloggy Wedding" (where blogging-friends PLANNED the wedding, and then attended, meeting the blogging-bride in person … Continue reading
Reading Review (Idaho Writers series): “Bright’s Passage” by Josh Ritter
Imagine, for a moment, a musician who'd been named to the list of "100 Greatest Living American Songwriters" before the age of thirty, whose albums are laden with lyrical language and layers of literary and intellectual references... And imagine that same musician writing two hundred pages of fiction with all the lyrical allure of his … Continue reading Reading Review (Idaho Writers series): “Bright’s Passage” by Josh Ritter
Author Interview: J.A. Squires
Last week I reviewed the book Assignment: Nepal by J.A. Squires, and mentioned that I hoped sometime to read an interview about the combined writing process of these two authors, collaborating under the Squires pen name. And then it occurred to me that perhaps I shouldn't wait around for someone else to ask those questions, … Continue reading Author Interview: J.A. Squires
Never Mind Resolutions–I’m Going for Reading Challenges!
Rather than reflecting on my bad habits and pledging change as the year turns over, I'm indulging a habit by getting excited by the various reading challenges that are being posted for the upcoming year... The other day I posted about a Mystery Reading Challenge, and here's another (not limited in theme or genre) which … Continue reading Never Mind Resolutions–I’m Going for Reading Challenges!
Another Hawai’ian Ventures into the Owyhees
[This was the magazine sidebar accompanying the story of our jaunt to Silver City, Idaho...] The Owyhee Mountains were named for a trio of native Hawai'ian trappers, working for the Hudson Bay Company, who disappeared in these mountains around 1820. For my husband Keoni, a native Hawai'ian himself, this bit of history put an intriguing … Continue reading Another Hawai’ian Ventures into the Owyhees
Kana's Chronicles 