Cristina Spencer

I haven't been posting as much lately, because I've been working on a project that I started awhile ago.  It's a book about h...

I struggle mightily with my About Me page.  The bloggers I enjoy tell these wonderful stories about themselves, the oatmeal they ate when th...

Last week I was at a writing workshop with Cheryl Strayed, the author of Torch ,  Wild , and Tiny Beautiful Things .  I signed up for it al...

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...