If you’re not familiar with poker, the thing to understand is that you start a hand with some cards of your own, and you don’t yet know what other cards will be available to you to use in that hand. You have to “sign up” to play that hand by putting some money in the … Continue reading Gypsying (OR: A Borderline Personality Working on Borders)
Tag: Writing
Singing in the Shower
It's fairly telling that my most "recent" post here dates from almost two years ago. It's even more telling that I haven't FELT like writing for two years. (That should be a red flag for a person like me, right?) And the real irony is that there was plenty to be writing ABOUT in those two years, … Continue reading Singing in the Shower
Who’s that MAN?
[This post will probably provoke a protest of "Mo-o-om!" from its subject... (Have you noticed how a teenager can turn "Mom" into a three-syllable word?) But the fearless family-chronicler forges forward nonetheless. ;) Love you, Son!] I had a weird moment just a while back, one that other moms-of-sons might recognize... I had taken a few … Continue reading Who’s that MAN?
“Life”—a Revised Edition
My sister and I used to play the Milton-Bradley board game Life, moving a plastic car along the predetermined path (adding pink or blue pegs to represent spouse and kids), and marking the "mileposts" of American living by paying or collecting money for various events. I suppose this game is intended to represent how life is "supposed" … Continue reading “Life”—a Revised Edition
The Double-Bride Wedding
There's a famous line from the Hawai'ian-themed Disney movie, Lilo & Stitch: "Ohana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind."But as even the movie demonstrates, Family is also a very complicated thing. Sometimes it takes some time---decades, even---to reach that point where nobody is being left behind.Our family is a pretty good example, "All-American" in its complexity. Keoni … Continue reading The Double-Bride Wedding
The Diarist’s Conundrum, & a Story About Community
I've been keeping journals since I was six years old. That first diary is a real gem, with one-sentence entries like: "Today I went crazy and thawt I was a frog." I wish I remembered the story behind that... The trouble with keeping journals, though, has always been the fact that when you have the … Continue reading The Diarist’s Conundrum, & a Story About Community
Superb Owl Sunday (OR… The Anthropology of Advertising)
So I hear the Super Bowl was last Sunday! Who knew? Well, okay---everybody else knew. This is one of the "social side-effects" of having no television channels. Last weekend's Super Bowl actually came to our attention accidentally a few days before the game, when a nursing assistant asked us which team we'd be rooting for. Long … Continue reading Superb Owl Sunday (OR… The Anthropology of Advertising)
Kana's Chronicles 