Life in Kana-text (er… CONtext)
Usually, when you read a book, it's easy to tell how far along you are, and how much you have left. Not so with Dan Beachy-Quick's A Whaler's Dictionary---at least, not if you follow its instructions. Usually, when you read a book, you don't need instructions, but this one comes with a "How to Use … Continue reading A Virtual Sit-Down with Author Dan Beachy-Quick
It's only natural that most of us try to keep most of our possessions in unspoiled and "like-new" condition for as long as possible. We don't like it when our phone-screens get webbed with cracks, or the paint chips off our cars, or the knees go out in our jeans (well, maybe that's still fashionable … Continue reading Beat to Hell
WordPress used to have a widget I loved. I love maps in any case---I'm a certifiable cartophile, and this map I loved in particular. A blogger could put this widget on the side of the page, and its map showed all the countries in which the blog had been read. SO cool. I can still … Continue reading The Lost Map
In the mornings when I'm freewriting, I jot down in the margins whatever "extra" half-formed ideas pop to the surface while I happen to have pen in hand. I usually don't have even a full cup of coffee in me at this point (I try to sort of take my brain by surprise, putting pen … Continue reading Hashtag-TITLE
My mother isn't one for writing-in-books, so I'm tickled that the book she just mailed me has a sentence underlined with a smiley-face. "I believe in crazyass passion." That's the line she highlighted in Rinker Buck's Oregon Trail travelogue, and that says plenty about my mother! She's a world traveler, kayaker, fly-fisher, river rafter, scuba diver (Nitrox-certified … Continue reading “Crazyass Passions” & Pencilled Notes
My notebook is bent, battered, and buckled, every kind of abused but bruised. The covers crease from frequent folding, and tags & stickies protrude from its pages. I've had it for all of three weeks. The notebook serves as a journal, but it its pages have also filled with sketches, blog-post brainstorms, A.A. Stepwork, notes from group sessions and church sermons, quotes and definitions … Continue reading Entering the Lists
I've been re-reading (actually, it's more like re-re-re-re-re-... well, you get the idea) the Harry Potter series this week, occasionally swapping volumes with one of my kids when our progression through the books overlapped... This is the first time through the books for Elena Grace, who (at age eight) is well acquainted with the film … Continue reading Marginalia & Time-Travel
Kana's Chronicles 