Last week was one of busiest weeks in recent memory. Some events I could never have predicted. ©2011 Cristina Kollet Monday my cat was ...

It's been a long month. I lost my job. Paul and I waited for weeks for an urgent package that seems to have vanished somewhere between...

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Life in over my head has gotten a bit deeper. As of February 5, I am (for the first time in 15 years) without a "day" job. The c...

I've been taking pottery classes--a gift from my wonderful husband and well timed. The classes were to get me out of the house and to re...

I had some fun with cropping. I think these tell a story. All images in this post ©Cristina Kollet 2011.

I bought a set of rain gear (pants and jacket) for my Whale Watching excursion in San Francisco back in August.   It’s been one of my be...

©Cristina Kollet 2011

Celebrant Foundation and Institute  Association members are contributing weekly articles to Spirituality and Health Magazine 's weekly n...

Things have gotten very busy since the holidays.  I have lots of things I want to post about, but no time to write. Hopefully I'll get c...

Happy New Year! Wookie and I welcomed the new year on the banks of the Hudson. The first time we did this the night was clear enough to hea...

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...