These are hard, scary, and unsettling times. Life is also still good.
Life in the Time of Coronavirus
Category: Life as I know it
A Bagel in Reno
I'm sitting at the pristine succulent-lined café bar, the city on pause outside, filtered out by clean air and soft music. An elevator ride away and I’ll be in a smoky lobby, surrounded by bells and sirens, the sounds of celebration drowning out the silence of despair.
No, Crissi, you can’t do all the things
Everyone has limits. Here are mine.
Update on my family as we wait out the Kincade Fire
I live in Northern California where we’re experiencing a horrible and terrifying fire emergency – the Kincade Fire – and I want to offer a quick update on what’s going on in my neck of the woods.
This Must Be Love, or at least a Phil Collins concert
Last week I fulfilled a lifelong dream of mine when I got to see Phil Collins live in concert on his farewell tour.
Answering the hard questions about life as a writer
There are the usual questions readers ask authors. But what about the hard ones? I answer those questions here.
Too busy to write? Or just procrastinating?
Instead of treating my writing as a priority, I treated it like a hobby, placing it much lower than everything else just because it was something I wanted to do vs. something I had to do.
Why I took a digital detox, and why you should, too
I was tired of comparing my real life to everyone’s highlights reels, feeling this tug-of-war between wanting to quiet the noise and wanting to contribute to it. So I did something about it. I took a break from digital media.
How to live each day like you’re on vacation
I think we miss these opportunities to enjoy our home lives as much as we enjoy visiting new places. It’s habitual to go about the day-to-day, treating every moment as ordinary. What if, instead, we created celebration around the ordinary?
Let there be light, let sleeping dogs lie
I started writing about how much I enjoy the morning light, but then this turned into a story about my dog, and my grief over putting him down.
