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A Ramble, and An Ode to my Frameo

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November 5, 2025November 13, 2025 ~ Kana Smith ~ 7 Comments

GoodReads tells me I'm "behind" by 9 books. It's measuring against the pace I have to average, in order to meet my reading goal of 310 books this year. I've spent the year playing leapfrog with that number---sometimes I'm a number of books ahead-of-pace, obviously sometimes the opposite. But we're coming up on that time … Continue reading A Ramble, and An Ode to my Frameo

Track Record

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September 19, 2025September 21, 2025 ~ Kana Smith ~ 2 Comments

My treadmill broke down this week. I'd love to say that I legitimately "used it up"---but truthfully, I haven't been that assiduous with my exercising. It was a pretty cheap treadmill, and it has lasted since our COVID shut-in year, but I didn't use it up with overuse. I swoop from one end of the … Continue reading Track Record

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"As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."

~ Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

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    Farah Arshad on “There’s No Place Like Home”December 19, 2025

    Exactly 💯.There is no place like home 🏠

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    Kana Smith on Technology & the SickBed-NestDecember 19, 2025

    Whew!--You are clearly not sharing our winter storm-weather. It's spitting freezing rain outside, and yessterday's wind-storm shredded several panels of…

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    Kana Smith on Technology & the SickBed-NestDecember 19, 2025

    It's funny how the COMFORT is what comes through in memory, more than the sick-ickiness...

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    Adventure Friendship on Now & ThenDecember 19, 2025

    Such a nice read! The way you’ve presented the sightseeing highlights is clear, engaging, and enjoyable.

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    joannerambling on Technology & the SickBed-NestDecember 18, 2025

    I am pleased you are improving, me I am feeling not the best but I expect that is the heat…

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