2026:
- Sep 12 ~ “Incremental Author”
- Sep 1 ~ “A Galaxy Far Far”
- Aug 28 ~ “Flip the Switch”
- Jan 21 ~ “In Which We Don’t Sail Off Into the Sunset”
- Jan 11 ~ “What is WRONG With People?”
- Jan 8 ~ “A Pain in the Neck”
- Jan 7 ~ “Avatar 3: Inadequately Imaginative”
- Jan 6 ~ “If the Present Is a Gift, So Is the Past”
- Jan 4 ~ “Cow Physiology 101”
- Jan 3 ~ “Firefighter Bob”
- Jan 2 ~ “Clearing Out”
- Jan 1 ~ “The ‘Year in Books’”
2025:
- Dec 31 ~ “My Natural State, and Damnable Nature”
- Dec 30 ~ “How to Define ‘Old’”
- Dec 29 ~ “On the Palm Tree as an Antidepressant”
- Dec 25 ~ “Swimmy Christmas”
- Dec 23 ~ “Travel Eve”
- Dec 21 ~ “Dragon Biography”
- Dec 19 ~ “The Christmas-Tree Trade-In”
- Dec 18 ~ “Technology & the Sickbed-Nest”
- Dec 14 ~ “Spenser ‘With an S like the Poet’”
- Dec 12 ~ “Now & Then”
- Dec 10 ~ “‘There’s No Place Like Home’”
- Dec 7 ~ “Travel Day”
- Dec 6 ~ “Hawai’i Day Eight: The Last Day”
- Dec 5 ~ “Hawai’i Day Seven: Supermoon”
- Dec 4 ~ “Hawai’i Day Six: Catching Joy”
- Dec 3 ~ “Hawai’i Day Five: a Beach Morning, a Verizon Afternoon, a Seafood Evening”
- Dec 2 ~ “Hawai’i Day Four: UNDER the Water!”
- Dec 1 ~ “Hawai’i Day Three: In the Water!”
- Dec 1 ~ “Hawai’i Day Two: Seeing Stars & Staying Put”
- Nov 30 ~ “Sleepless in Hawai’i”
- Nov 30 ~ “First Day in Hawai’i: Working Toward ‘Vacation Gear’”
- Nov 29 ~ “On My Charger”
- Nov 27 ~ “Today’s Post is Elsewhere”
- Nov 26 ~ “Wall of Heroes“
- Nov 25 ~ “A Signature Color”
- Nov 24 ~ “A Safe Bet”
- Nov 23 ~ “The Daddy-Daughter Downpour”
- Nov 22 ~ “A Virtual Sit-Down With Author Keshav Porwal”
- Nov 21 ~ “Roommates in a Padded Cell”
- Nov 20 ~ “Welcome to the Future”
- Nov 20 ~ “A Virtual Sit-Down with Author Dan Beachy-Quick”
- Nov 19 ~ “The State of the Sky”
- Nov 18 ~ “Waiting for Godot”
- Nov 17 ~ “Scanned-alous”
- Nov 16 ~ “Beat to Hell”
- Nov 15 ~ “Pirates of the London Underground”
- Nov 15~ “The Lost Map”
- Nov 14 ~ “Lost & Found”
- Nov 13 ~ “The Accidental Cat Lady”
- Nov 12 ~ “Better than a Fairy Godmother”
- Nov 11 ~ “The Balance of Context”
- Nov 10 ~ “Avoiding ‘Sketcher’s Block’”
- Nov 9 ~ “Portofino”
- Nov 8 ~ “Cross My Heart”
- Nov 7 ~ “The User’s Manual: 13 Rules”
- Nov 6 ~ “Poetry Ambush”
- Nov 5 ~ “A Ramble, and An Ode to my Frameo”
- Nov 4 ~ “Vanity Fair (or Unfair)”
- Nov 3 ~ “A Horror-Stricken Ostrich”
- Nov 2 ~ “Rejection Letters”
- Nov 1 ~ “Here AND There”
- Oct 31 ~ “Punching Bag”
- Oct 30 ~ “Giving Thanks: The “October Curse” Stays Lifted”
- Oct 29 ~ “The Post-It Queen Strikes Again”
- Oct 28 ~ “Giving New Meaning to ‘Recharging a Mouse’”
- Oct 28 ~ “Podcast Debrief”
- Oct 27 ~ “Advice for Mr. Pickletoes”
- Oct 26 ~ “On the Subject of Being the Subject”
- Oct 25 ~ “Drama, Drama, Book Sale”
- Oct 24 ~ “A Reading Proposal for You, Reader”
- Oct 24 ~ “Here a Duck, There a Duck”
- Oct 22 ~ “In Which Kana is Delighted by a New Toy”
- Oct 19 ~ “Big Reveal: What APPLE Actually Looks Like”
- Oct 16 ~ “To Life, and Courage (and DuoLingo)”
- Oct 15 ~ “The Turtle-Shell Autobiography”
- Oct 12 ~ “When the Journey IS the Journey”
- Oct 11 ~ “On Hobbits & Hobbit-Holes”
- Oct 7 ~ “What Dreams Are Shaped Like”
- Oct 3 ~ “8 Things About Lists”?
- Oct 1 ~ “Stop, Don’t Make Me Chinkle!”
- Sep 29 ~ “A Legacy of Owl Interment?”
- Sep 28 ~ “Where There’s (NOT) a Will”
- Sep 27 ~ “Hi, My Name is Right Brain”
- Sep 25 ~ “Books From the Ships”
- Sep 24 ~ “The Affect Effect”
- Sep 20 ~ “Tomatoes & Moose”
- Sep 19 ~ “Track Record”
- Sep 14 ~ “A Cowpoke by Any Other Name”
- Sep 4 ~ “Driven”
- Aug 30 ~ “Catastrophe & Calm“
- Aug 8 ~ “Channeling Pinocchio“
2023:
- Sep 11 ~ “This is What We Do.”
- July 12 ~ The Ship’s Cat Wants a Ship’s Goose
- July 4 ~ Hashtag-Title
- June 30 ~ A Leap
- June 29 ~ On Docking, On Keels, On Seamonsters
- June 28 ~ On People-ing
- June 27 ~ Barometer
- June 26 ~ “Vacation-Rules”
2022:
- Oct 10 ~ When God is Your Travel Agent (Another Installment)
- Sep 23 ~ Bilbo’s Birthday (or: the Baggins-ian Calendar Proposition)
- June 3 ~ 3 days in the “little apple”: Manzanita, OR
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:
- Sep 16 ~ Who’s that MAN?
- Sep 14 ~ “Life”—A Revised Edition
- Sep 11 ~ What Charlies Are For
- April 2 ~ The Double-Bride Wedding
2013:
- Jan 11~ The Holiday Card
2012:
- 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 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 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.)
Oct 11~ Travel Writing: Our “Pirate Code” for the Road
- 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”
Kana's Chronicles 
I’d enjoy that! I’m not seeing your email, though—can you double-check the address? kanasmith13@gmail.com Talk soon! :)