Life in Kana-text (er… CONtext)
Hi, my name is Kana, and I'm a stats-aholic. I admit it. I look at my blog stats a lot. It's the feel-good-fix for which I don't want to go to Anonymous meetings. Unlike alcohol (for which I DO go to meetings), my stats addiction doesn't turn me Stupid. (At least, I don't think it … Continue reading Confessions of a Statistics Slut
Our daughter has this to say about traveling: Of course, I have to add the mom-commentary (is that a Mom-mentary?) that THIS may be the reason she gets carsick:
I actually got that response once, from an older lady (you know, probably about the age I am now) at a campground on the east coast, when I responded to her friendly where-ya-from by answering "Idaho." Unsure whether a third-grader were allowed to correct a Grownup, I defaulted by abruptly removing myself from the conversation, … Continue reading “Honey, out here we pronounce that ‘Iowa’…”
It's a colorful week--yesterday I painted the web pink, and today I get to forward some green! (Sorry, guys--not money...) Better than money (right? right?)--today I am honored to bestow the Versatile Blogger Award on 15 fellow bloggers! First, my humble thanks to Lynette at Wordtabulous, who honored me with the award last night (just … Continue reading Versatile Blogger (Verbosity “R” Us)
My son Christian has had an invisible dragon-friend since he was two years old. He's blue (I haven't puzzled out the contradictory twist of physics by which "blue" and "invisible" can coincide as descriptors) and about the size of a big toe. A pocket-dragon, you could say--though I'm given to understand that most often he … Continue reading The Mom with the Dragon Tattoo
"Their schooling over, readers were presumably qualified to make their own additions to the books in their care." --H.J. Jackson, in Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books "books as pets--pet dragons, maybe, or something exotic--care & feeding of your book" --scribbled note in my own (heavily annotated) copy of Marginalia I used to starve my books, … Continue reading The Care & Feeding of Books
I suppose one way to measure the popularity of a Classic is to count the number of spin-offs it's spawned. Gauging by that measure, I'd have to say that Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice surpasses "popular" and rings in at "obsession;" a quick bookstore-search turned up more than 50 novels based on Austen's golden oldie. … Continue reading Bang-up Spin-off: “An Assembly Such as This” (Idaho Writers series)
Kana's Chronicles 