A Signature Color

cartoon of a woman's bare feet on a beach, with toenails painted turquoise

November 25, 2025November 25, 2025 ~ Kana Smith ~ 28 Comments

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

A Ramble, and An Ode to my Frameo

drawing of a breakfast table on a patio on Maui at sunrise

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

Vanity Fair (or Unfair)

AI-generated image of the author looking in two mirrors

November 4, 2025November 4, 2025 ~ Kana Smith ~ 28 Comments

I've been trying, here, to dig down and write some things that are real (even if they don't frame me in the best light), and what's on my mind today is vanity. My own vanities are a weird mix---things I literally don't even bother to look at, and things I obsess about as if they … Continue reading Vanity Fair (or Unfair)