Life in Kana-text (er… CONtext)
If you don't do your blogging from an iPad, there's one thing you might not realize about your WordPress blog. The "default settings" on your blog are programmed to send iPad viewers to a specialized "mobile view" of your blog called OnSwipe--and (speaking as an uber-frustrated iPad reader-of-blogs) the OnSwipe view is CRAP. So I … Continue reading Blogger Call to Action: Please Help Me Happy-Dance
Why is it...that when our digital devices are syncing, we don't throw them life preservers? Why is it...that everyone has a "bucket list" of things they want to do, but nobody talks about the Fuckit List of the shit they've decided not to bother with? Why is it...that people don't come with the "Cool" button … Continue reading Hunting for Answers in Pink Camo: Why is it…
I grew up in a family of Grammatical Puritans--English teachers on all sides. It might be permissible to become bored with grammar-reminders, but I'd damn-well-better-not become bored OF them. Or end a sentence with a preposition. Or split an infinitive. Or use "who" when "whom" would be correct (or the reverse). I was the only … Continue reading To Boldly Split an Infinitive…
It's the first of the month--do you know what that means? (No, no, I'm not blogging about NaNoWriMo. I've pledged not to--though it occurs to me I didn't make any promises about Twitter...) The first of any month is Rabbit-Rabbit day in our family. The family tradition (spread now among several generations of family friends) … Continue reading Rabid Rabbiters
OR... Znalazłeś rozwiązanie? Let it not be said that reclusive writers have no social life. The world is at my fingertips these days, even when I'm curled up in bed. I will confess that my physical geography has been exceedingly limited since my seasonal summer-job ended last month. We live out in the country with … Continue reading Tweet Translations in the Pumpkin Patch: A Writer’s Life After Midnight
It's a colorful week--yesterday I painted the web pink, and today I get to forward some green! (Sorry, guys--not money...) Better than money (right? right?)--today I am honored to bestow the Versatile Blogger Award on 15 fellow bloggers! First, my humble thanks to Lynette at Wordtabulous, who honored me with the award last night (just … Continue reading Versatile Blogger (Verbosity “R” Us)
Imagine my perplexity the day I got home from high school to find our family's front yard overflowing with a flamboyance of pink plastic flamingos. (Yes, "flamboyance" really is a collective noun for a butt-load of flamingos. I looked it up.) This is way out of my mother's usual decorating-range. If SHE had put the … Continue reading You’ve been Flamingoed!
Kana's Chronicles 