Life in Kana-text (er… CONtext)
We fly out for Christmas in the morning, which means we’re currently driving to a hotel by our airport. Living where we do, the night-before-travel hotel room is an integral part of the trip. Call it “Travel Eve.” For those of you (which will be most of you) who haven’t experienced the joys of a … Continue reading “Travel Eve”
This year we are bucking traditions and trading in the Christmas Tree for palm trees! A couple years ago my mom got herself a little winter place in California, as a way to get out from under the north-Idaho Winter Blues. It gets dark really early, in winter in northern Idaho. The days are short, … Continue reading The Christmas-Tree Trade-In
If it weren't so cold and rainy out, I'd probably be sitting in my driveway atop my packed duffel. "Can we GO now? How about NOW?" The word "eager" comes to mind. My bag really is packed, just waiting for my toothbrush and I'm ready to hit the road. Hit the skies? Ready to leave … Continue reading Today’s Post is Elsewhere
It was sometime in junior high or high school that my mom and my sister and I started the tradition of painting our toenails at the beginning of Spring Break vacations. We lived in a place where the snowbanks hadn't melted by March, so our toes wouldn't have seen the light of day since the … Continue reading A Signature Color
When our parents used to tuck us into bed at night, Mother usually sang something---they had a broad repertoire of folk songs---and Daddy was our stories guy. He had an ongoing saga about a pair of mischievous alligators, "the Lucys," who followed us on all our travels, getting into trouble as they tried to keep … Continue reading The Daddy-Daughter Downpour
Journal entry from December of the year 2000: I'm about to embark on a week-long sailing trip, and I'm agonizing over what book I feel like taking. It has to "fit the mood," it has to have at least the possibility of sparking poetry-writing... and it has to last the week. Correction: It has to … Continue reading Welcome to the Future
I could be said (with some amount of understatement) to have a penchant for list-making. I came by it honestly, if there's a gene for that---my dad actually kept a list of all his lists. (A meta-list?) I'm sorry now that I never asked him what his List List was for. Were there lists he … Continue reading “8 Things About Lists”?
Kana's Chronicles 