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
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The Physics of Family
The summer I graduated from university, I joined my mom's Karate class for a couple months. She had been participating for a year or so in a class comprised entirely of women (aside from the male Sensei), and pleasantly free of any of the pressures of machismo or testosterone. I thoroughly enjoyed the lessons, and … Continue reading The Physics of Family
Time-Travel via YouTube
My husband Keoni found a historic gem online yesterday: game-film from the championship football game he played his senior year of high school. The whole game---complete with a "pause to change reels." Yep, reel-to-reel, black-and-white game film. Classic 1973. Naturally, I didn't miss the opportunity to tease him about my Favorite Fact. "Wow, there's Senior-in-high-school … Continue reading Time-Travel via YouTube
The Shampoo Manifesto
When our son Christian started Kindergarten, the school called me up within the first two weeks to ask if they could move him to second grade. Eep! We compromised at the halfway point, and he skipped just one grade. I had no question that he could handle the academics, but I had fears for junior-high … Continue reading The Shampoo Manifesto
Project Petroglyph
Keoni and I make a running joke about his age---not because he's incredibly old (though of course that's the joke), but because he was in college when I was born... So I tease him that when he used to carry girls' books after school, they were clay tablets... Or that his birth certificate was chiseled … Continue reading Project Petroglyph
Hau’oli la Hanau! (35)
Thirty-five years ago today, my mother employed her primary Superpower and made a person. A day or two later I was introduced to a lifetime companion and playmate and co-conspirator and friend: my sister Karin. (She guides people's pronunciation with this clue: "You park a KAR-in the garage.") I turned three just a few weeks … Continue reading Hau’oli la Hanau! (35)
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!
According to my Urban Dictionary, the above phrase dates from early days in Las Vegas, when a standard gambling bet was two dollars, and most casinos offered a three-piece chicken dinner for $1.79. Anyone who won a bet would have the price of a chicken dinner (winner winner)! One of our neighboring Idaho towns has put another … Continue reading Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!
Kana's Chronicles 