Cristina Spencer

You can't see me in this picture, but I was there, one of the four friends holding up the Chuppah.  It was June 18, 2000.  The wedd...

Gwendolyn arrived home yesterday and I was reminded how this oldest child grows me up.  The river of her life is always the first to cut my ...

My last post about reducing stress for ourselves , resonated with a lot of people, and my favorite response was the one above.  It gets righ...

Dear friends, We find ourselves reeling again, here in Palo Alto.  We've lost another child to suicide.  And we don't know what to ...

Recently I finished reading The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace .  It is the story of a brilliant young African American man from ...

Brette, Kirsten and I (aka Impact Guild) hosted a casual girlfriends' night out to see and discuss the movie Wild.  The movie, based...

For the fourth year in a row, I am participating, alongside   my friend Laurel ,    in the practice of choosing a word for the year .  We we...

Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes Five hundred twenty five thousand moments, oh dear Five hundred twenty five thousand ...

Sometimes December can feel like running a three ring circus as the stage lights slowly dim.  Five different things are going on at the same...

Friends, meet Sharon Wong.  She attended our November 2nd Event and took a leap.  At the event that day she decided to launch the Palo Alt...