I am on vacation and snowed in. On top of that I have the flu--which really cuts down on my ability to write anything coherent. So instead o...

This morning we were supposed to drive down to south Jersey for brunch with our friend Richie.  I admit that in my holiday haze I had not ch...

I'm sitting here with the hiccups winding down from a great evening with family and friends. I plugged in our tree. It's been up a...

This is my new toy and it's great! I've lusted after this for about a year now, hoping it would do everything it said it would, b...

Have you ever been inconvenienced by a water main break or just felt disappointed when the store didn't have your favorite brand of bott...

I'll admit it. The heavy posting tonight has been due to my attempts to get Blogger, Twitter, and Facebook to play nice. Since I'm...

When I was a kid, I loved putting up the Christmas tree. I loved lights, the decorations with all their memories attached, and even that emp...

©Cristina Kollet 2010 This morning I saw the first snow flakes of the holiday season. Happily, it didn't stick. But here, the snow i...

I have recently rediscovered reading for pleasure. It’s not that I ever lost interest in it; more a combination of lack of time and not find...

I have to wonder about the design meetings for some of the sound barriers lining the highways here in New Jersey.  This one on I80 is partic...

“Most Women Wouldn’t be Prepared for This” That’s what a woman said to me at the doctor’s office last week. She was thanking me for offe...

As of 22 minutes ago, it's Thanksgiving. Things have been rough. Lots of things are not as I would like. But the scales remain tipped ...

©Cristina Kollet 2010

So in the last two weeks I turned 40 and my teaching season began again. So I haven't had much time to write, though lots to write abou...

©2010 Cristina Kollet Life's a bit of a balancing act. There are a lot of things that are not going the way I'd like and a lot of...

Like many, I have been saddened by the stories of young people taking their lives because of bullies. A lot of people are contributing video...

I've seen variations of this sign a lot lately and someone must be mass producing them because  the phrase "individual towel...

I do plan on getting back to blogging about my San Francisco vacation. I have more memories and pictures to share about that amazing trip. B...

I have, more than once on this trip, been rendered speechless and absolutely awestruck by beauty--and for that San Francisco, I thank you.

San Francisco (and the surrounding area) is beautiful. My first few hours in the city were a wonderful reminder of that. To start, the arc...