Life in Kana-text (er… CONtext)
Alexa has a new voice this week. If you're not familiar, Alexa is the name of the imaginary person who speaks from the Amazon Echo, which is a small speaker connected to the internet. Alexa is very helpful in our household. We call out to her from the kitchen to add things to our grocery … Continue reading The State of the Sky
I had a pleasant email this morning from a fellow blogger, JJ Pickletoes, and one of his questions deserved some thought. And as I thought, I remembered a principle I followed as a teacher: if one person asked the question, other people probably had that same question too. In a classroom, I'd address it openly … Continue reading Advice for Mr. Pickletoes
Two years ago on an August evening, an unknown Oregon number rang my Idaho cell, and I picked up the call that changed EVERYTHING. Jon and I were agitating to get out of Boise, which has outgrown itself ----wanting to move closer to the Coast, somewhere small-town, more like Idaho used to be... (When I … Continue reading What WASN’T in the Job Description…
Our chickens won't be winning any intellectual awards. Ku'okoa (aptly named with the Hawai'ian word for "freedom") is brighter than the rest---she spends a fair bit of time outside the chicken-yard, but she always returns when she's done adventuring. The other girls, though... Maybe I'm too much "Mother Hen" with them, but I just don't … Continue reading A Swimming Chicken, a Filing Ferret, & a Knight Seeking Work
I used to think that my sister and I had the best-ever outlet for playing with our bath toys. We grew up in an Idaho farm-town that practiced irrigation-watering for the lawns in town, so our front yard was flooded in several inches of water for a couple evenings every week. I still have memories … Continue reading Bathing Ferrets, Idaho Wildlife, & Pumpkin Pie
I jinxed myself, no doubt about it. When I wrote last week about our growing tribe of pets and animals, I ended by saying I hoped we wouldn't be floating away like Noah's Ark. Just a couple nights later--Saturday night, to be specific, or rather, the "wee hours" of Sunday morning--Keoni woke me to say … Continue reading From Noah’s Ark to Yellow Submarine
We don't usually get a lot of rain here. We live in Idaho's "high desert" climate, where it gets really cold in winter and really hot in summer, but we seldom get even an inch of precipitation in a month. Which makes the last few days unusual---we've had more than an inch of rain this … Continue reading Our Arc Afloat
Kana's Chronicles 