Kana’s Archives

2022:

Sep 23 ~ Bilbo’s Birthday (or: the Baggins-ian Calendar Proposition)

2021:

Jan 26 ~ One Decoder Ring, No Cereal Required
Jan 11 ~ Ready, Set… Oooh! More Research!

2020:

Dec 18 ~ The 2020 Letter to Santa
Dec 11 ~ Between the Covers

Nov 21 ~ You Might be a Cat Lady if…“
Nov 7 ~ Allow me to enunciate this clearly
Nov 6 ~ “and stuff like that until she died.“
Nov 2 ~ “White Space“

Oct 18 ~ “What Wasn’t in the Job Description“

May 20 ~ “Hello My Name Is“

April 24 ~ How to Read the New York Times (the A.D.D. Edition)
April 18 ~ The 2020 Sailor’s “Gam”

2018:

Aug 20 ~ How God Talks

July 17 ~ Vacation Metrics
July 15~ Surprise! It’s the Ocean!
July 6 ~ Go, Go, Glow

February 23 ~ Setting Sail: the Launch of a Serial Novel

2017:

December 28 ~ Playing Sims (And Questions of Free Will)

November 4 ~ Drawing up a Gratitude List

July 13 ~ Eels on the Highway and Other Adventures
July 12 ~ Reasons
July 11 ~ Enthusiasms
July 9 ~ Beacons
July 8 ~ Reframing
July 7 ~ Where the World Is
July 6 ~ Anticipation—Part of the Journey
July 5 ~ Spooks and Sparklers
July 1 ~ Newton’s Law of … Summer

June 27 ~ Learning Curves
June 19 ~ A Visit (And a Visitation)
June 4 ~ Radio-Speak (Do You Copy?)
June 2 ~ The “Dead C” Scroll

May 26 ~ Going GRAYcefully?
May 24 ~ On Physics and Fear
May 17 ~ Advice from a Polyglot
May 14 ~ Mother’s Day, By the Numbers
May 9 ~ Legos—Did You Know?
May 4 ~ Mommying, the Way It Is
May 3 ~ Taking Off the Training Wheels (in Prayer)
May 2 ~ The Science of Smiles

April 29 ~ First Solo on the Bike
April 27 ~ The Catch-22 of SR-22
April 26 ~ On Vapors, and Vapers
April 25 ~ Love Languages & Chocolate Sprinkles
April 19 ~ Sea Legs & Side Effects
April 18 ~ An Empowered Shade of Orange
April 17 ~ Jesus Meets a Harley-Riding Rabbit
April 14 ~ What Paper Plates are For
April 13 ~ Like a (Dry-Docked) Sailboat: RV Living
April 10 ~ Life, and Death. And Life.
April 7 ~ Sucked In

March 15 ~ Flood in the Desert
March 13 ~ Views From the Roof
March 9 ~ On Mobility
March 5 ~ Listening in Silence

Feb 23 ~ Taking Out the Trash
Feb 10 ~ Put it on a T-shirt: Biker Edition
Feb 2 ~ How to Save Hundreds on Prescriptions (I don’t care if I sound like a bad TV ad… Everyone should know about this)

Jan 24 ~ Exorcism by Ink
Jan 23 ~ Step Aside, Monday. This is a Job for COFFEE!
Jan 17 ~ Put it on a T-shirt: Klutz Edition
Jan 14 ~ Put it on a T-shirt… Sometime: Procrastination Edition (List#7)
Jan 13 ~ Internal Geographies
Jan 12 ~ Toothbrush Talk
Jan 11 ~ “Crazyass Passions” & Pencilled Notes
Jan 8 ~ Cultivating a Path
Jan 6 ~ 2017: A Year for Reading Rihla
Jan 4 ~ Changing My Story
Jan 2 ~ Don’t Be JAFO
Jan 1 ~ RV Wintering

2016:

Dec 31 ~ Things About My 2016 (List#6)
Dec 30 ~ (List#5) Things I Love About Lists
Dec 29 ~ Put it on a Bumper Sticker: RV Edition (List#4)
Dec 28 ~ Travels with Toots
Dec 27 ~ Christmas Redux, Christmas Remix
Dec 19 ~ Death of a Salesman(‘s Commission)
Dec 16 ~ Duck, Duck, Dog!
Dec 15 ~ When You Wait Till You’re Married (List#3)
Dec 13 ~ Put it On a T-shirt: Mental Health Edition (List#2)
Dec 12 ~ Uses for Sticky Notes (List#1)
Dec 11 ~ Entering the Lists
Dec 10 ~ I Am the Pumpkin Patch
Dec 9 ~ A Facelift, An Uplift
Dec 8 ~ If God Acts as Travel Agent, Don’t Argue the Itinerary
Dec 5 ~ A Dash of Tobasco
Dec 4 ~ Addendum to a Eulogy

Nov 30 ~ Living Large by Living SMALL
Nov 25 ~ Gypsying (OR A Borderline Personality Working on Borders)
Nov 11 ~ Singing in the Shower

2014:

Dec 31 ~ The Secret to Life…

Aug 29 ~ Full Circle: At the Wheel
Aug 21~ Mythbusters Edition: “Depression is Just in Your Head”

April 2 ~ The Double-Bride Wedding

March 24~ The Diarist’s Conundrum, & a Story About Community

2013:

Feb 13~ Once Upon a Restaurant
Feb 9~ Superb Owl Sunday (OR… The Anthropology of Advertising)

Jan 11~ The Holiday Card

2012:

Dec 16~ A Swimming Chicken, a Filing Ferret, & a Knight Seeking Work
Dec 13~ The Physics of Family

Nov 27~ Bathing Ferrets, Idaho Wildlife, & Pumpkin Pie
Nov 9~ Time Travel Via YouTube
Nov 8~ From Noah’s Ark to Yellow Submarine

Oct 31~ Our Ark Afloat
Oct 21~ The Shampoo Manifesto
Oct 3~ Chickens & Pickles! Autumn hits Idaho…
Oct 2~ This One’s for All the Mommies!
Oct 1~ A HomeComing Game, Indeed

Sep 27~ Analyzing Austen-tatiously
Sep 26~ To “Re:” or Not to “Re:”… That is the Question
Sep 24~ Project Petroglyph
Sep 22~ Hau’oli la Hanau (35)
Sep 21~ Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!
Sep 15~ Pushed Over the Edge?
Sep 8~ Pushing Past a Comfort Zone

Aug 22~ The Death of Malaise
Aug 7~ A Lesson on Letting Go
Aug 5~ Expedition Journal #3: Faking a Phone
Aug 4~ Well, This is Embarrassing...
Aug 3~ Hill-Climbing, Hummingbirds, and Handguns

July 31~ Our Little Patch of Plantation
July 28~ Riding His High Horse to Death
July 22~ Budget Limbo: How LOW can we go?
July 16~ Rhubarb Leaves of Death: Family Mysteries Revealed
July 15~ Can’t Stand the Heatstroke: Getting Out of the Kitchen!
July 13~ A Tattooed Chicken-Farmer in Heat (Wait, that didn’t come out right…)
July 12~ “Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens…” (Part 1)
July 10~ Check Your Drama at the Door
July 7~ His Worst Week, His Best Week. Same Week.
July 5~ The Dragon Biographer
July 4~ We now PAWS to bring you this Public Service Reminder
July 2~ Boundaries (or… “This Righting isn’t Write!”)

June 30~ Kitchen Chemistry #3: PEOPLE-Cleaners
June 29~ Barter ECOnomics, & the Much-Maligned Art of Packrat-ism
June 20~ Shakespeare with a Pre-Teen (& a Dab of Kitchen Chemistry)
June 18~ Home to Roost
June 17~ Moving On
June 15~ Something to Prove (or… “MOMMY can change a tire!”)
June 9~ Marginalia & Time Travel
June 8~ Summer, Synchronicity, Sewage, Stones, & Superpowers

May 27~ Kitchen Chemistry #2: DIY Household Cleaners
May 26~ A Sermon, A Spell
May 24~ Food-Stamp Kitchen Chemistry #1: Jewelry Cleaner
May 23~ Fifty Shades of Greybeard
May 20~ Practicing Craft
May 17~ The Controversy of Kid-Calendars
May 15~ hoMAge
May 13~ Lucky 13 for One Mommy
May 12~ A Pilgrimage of Perspective
May 10~ Past, President, Future
May 9~ Dandelion Bouquet
May 7~ …And Morning
May 7~ Nightmare
May 5~ Expedition Journal #2: Fishing for a Photo Site
May 2~ History of a Helm-Hog
May 1~ Synchronicity or Swim

April 30~ Expedition Journal #1: Prospecting on Pinterest
April 27~ Cracking the Winter Chrysalis
April 25~ Buoyancy Control
April 23~ YOUR Advice? Self-Publishing vs. Traditional
April 22~ How to Bury an Owl
April 21~ My Daughter the Ball-Buster
April 20~ When you Assume… you make an ASS out of U & ME
April 19~ Blogging Tips: Growing a Readership
April 15~ National Procrastination Day
April 11~ The Curious Significance of STUFF
April 8~ Grittier Resurrection Stories
April 7~ “I Can See Clearly Now…”
April 5~ Girls With Guns: I Broke a Nail, but the Magazine’s Loaded
April 4~ On the Ethics of Storytelling, and the Art of Making Shit Up

Mar 29~ A Bug in His Ear
Mar 21~ The Dying(?) Art of Knowing Your Neighbors
Mar 20~ Some Barely-Related Stories, and Memories of a Storyteller
Mar 14~ A Game of Blog-Tag: YOU’RE It!
Mar 13~ Blogging Tech-Tips: Getting Started
Mar 12~ Cheatin’ on a Cheater
Mar 12~ Monday Giggle: “They Really DO Exist!”
Mar 11~ The Reluctant Fashionista Springs Forward
Mar 11~ Proofreading, Anyone?
Mar 10~ Blogging Tech-Tip: Collecting Flags
Mar 9~ “TMI”…If ever an award were MEANT for me…
Mar 8~ (Used) Lions & Bunnies & Bears, oh my!
Mar 4~ Mother-in-Law or Fairy Godmother?

Feb 14~ Call for WRITERS!
Feb 13~ Poetry When Slammed
Feb 10~ A Learning-Journey Toward Valuing my Gender… And Those who Share it!
Feb 5~ February Sunshine!
Feb 2~ Shining a Light Into the Dark Places

Jan 29~ 13 Months of Sobriety are Irrelevant–I am a ‘Drunken Waste’
Jan 25~ Coach Dad & the Wicked Stepma–The Joys(?) of Parenting Teens
Jan 23~ Do-it-Yourself Bald Barbie
Jan 20~ ‘Can your family does?’ YES!
Jan 19~ Blacked Out, and Snowstorm-Driving for Dummies
Jan 18~ Subterranean Splendors: Shoshone Ice Caves
Jan 17~ Internet Blackout… Imagine if it were Permanent! That’s the Threat we Face
Jan 15~ From Volcanic Hotspots to an Atomic Town
Jan 14~ Ice Fishing, Hot Springs, and a Duck-Hunting Writer
Jan 13~ ‘Western Byways’ on the Road… Carey, Idaho
Jan 12~ Reading Review (“Idaho Writers” Series)… “Bright’s Passage” by Josh Ritter
Jan 10~ Soul for Sale, Going Once…
Jan 8~ One of my Very Bad Habits
Jan 5~ Reprise: ‘Blogger Call to Action’
Jan 2~ A Battery-Operated Halo… And an Award or Two

2011:

Dec 30~ Author Interview: J.A. Squires
Dec 29~ Never Mind Resolutions–I’m Going for Reading Challenges!
Dec 28~ Another Hawai’ian Ventures into the Owyhees
Dec 28~ Silver City, Idaho: A “Ghost Town” that Never Gave Up the Ghost
Dec 27~ Freelance Job Opportunity!
Dec 26~ Book Chick City’s Mystery Reading Challenge 2012
Dec 25~ A Running Start at Next Year’s “Naughty” List
Dec 25~ What Jesus and Hobbits Have in Common
Dec 25~ Santa:The Morning After
Dec 24~ Reading Review (Kana’s “5-Star” Series)… “Assignment: Nepal” by J.A. Squires
Dec 23~ It’s a Turtle Life
Dec 22~ A Forum on Freelancing
Dec 18~ PSA for Readers: HELLO, Free Books!
Dec 14~ Inventory Item: Right Knee, Size XL
Dec 11~ ‘Mythbusters’ Edition: How NOT to Blog
Dec 10~ Stand Down the SWAT Team
Dec 9~ Growing a Writer: Just Add Marker
Dec 8~ Looking for YA Reading Recommendations
Dec 7~ In Which My ‘Tab’ Key Becomes a ‘Tabby’ Key
Dec 6~ O Peeing Tree, O Peeing Tree!
Dec 4~ Words Have Meaning, Names Have Power
Dec 3~ Tiaras and Carpet Tape
Dec 2~ Sailor’s Knot, Compass Rose
Dec 1~ Shifting Paradigms & Half a Pair’o’Dimes

Nov 28~ Contest Contribution: “Christmas Memory with Mother”
Nov 27~ In the Market for a Maker
Nov 25~ A Smashmetician Ponders Relative Time
Nov 22~ Amazing Grace, How Sweet the SOUNDS
Nov 20~ Wearing a Party-Tail
Nov 18~ Adventures of the Spermudgeon and the Scribbler
Nov 17~ Boxers & Blugs
Nov 16~ A Signature Quirk
Nov 15~ Breaking my Own Rules: Observations from the NaNoWriMo Lab Notebook
Nov 13~ A Day of Dragons, with Chocolate Pi
Nov 11~ A Worm by any other name would be… A Hobbit
Nov 10~ Confessions of a Statistics Slut
Nov 8~ Blogger Call to Action: Please Help Me Happy-Dance
Nov 6~ Hunting for Answers in Pink Camo: Why is it...
Nov 5~ Sex-Ed in a Nutshell: “Huh. THAT’s kinda gross.”
Nov 4~ To Boldly Split an Infinitive
Nov 3~ The Mom-Handbook [You Never Got]
Nov 3~ Guest Post by Elena Grace (Age 7)
Nov 1~ Rabid Rabbiters

Oct 31~ Know When to Hold ‘Em
Oct 30~ An Anniversary, Without a Ribbon
Oct 29~ Rescue Diver
Oct 28~ What to Wear When Getting a Traffic Ticket
Oct 27~ “Honey, out here we pronounce that ‘Iowa’…”
Oct 26~ Tweet Translations in the Pumpkin Patch: A Writer’s Life After Midnight
Oct 25~ Versatile Blogger (Verbosity “R” Us)
Oct 24~ You’ve Been Flamingoed!
Oct 23~ Junior High Journal: an UN-Literary Analysis
Oct 22~ Tit for Tat: Tokidoki Barbie and Me
Oct 21~ Open Thank-You to Our Daughter (The Fibber)
Oct 20~ Asia Market: Our In-Town International Trip ~
Oct 19~ An Accidental Sit-In
Oct 17~ Living Richly
Oct 15~ The Mom with the Dragon Tattoo
Oct 14~ Wicked Stepma, Advice Columnist
Oct 13~ Lucky Thirteen
Oct 12~ I Pledge not to Blog About NaNoWriMo. (oops. Dammit.)

© Kana

Oct 11~ Travel Writing: Our “Pirate Code” for the Road

Oct 10~ Cemetery Census

Oct 9~ Confessions of a “Street Minister”

Oct 8~ “Manscaping” the Kitchen

Oct 7~ “Blog Packages” for your Family Vacation!

Oct 6~ On “Inheriting” a Cat

Oct 5~ Byways & Bygones: Idaho’s “Old Oregon Trail Byway”

Oct 3~ Recalculating

Oct 2~ The Care and Feeding of Books

Oct 1~ Bang-up Spin-off: “An Assembly Such as This” (Idaho Writers series)

Sep 30~ Drinks got warm, but the fish stayed cold
Sep 28~ Hooked
Sep 28~ Fishing vs. Catching
Sep 27~ Settling in at Redfish Lodge
Sep 25~ Packing Pro
Sep 25~ Captain Kid
Sep 23~ Burning the Script
Sep 23~ A day at the “Office”

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