by Kristina | May 26, 2016 | Life
My coworker Becca works with the ‘leaders of tomorrow,’ which is a fancy way of saying she spends a lot of time with kids and young adults. She gets to know them pretty well and vice versa. One year, as a joke, the kiddoes made her this book called Things...
by Kristina | May 13, 2016 | Life
I love birthdays. Christmas, Easter, the last day of school…. pretty much all of the holidays kids get excited about pale in comparison to birthdays for me. Birthdays are the one day where you are different than (most) everyone else. Everyone should enjoy...
by Kristina | Apr 28, 2016 | Advice, Camping, Life
PorterPants as I call him. Lovingly captured hiking by Lisa Bowers.You wouldn’t know it from looking at this photo of my favorite little buddy, but a few years ago I didn’t like dogs. Or red wine. Or riding a bicycle, carrying things up hills, or sleeping...
by Kristina | Apr 7, 2016 | Advice, Life, Travel
Back in December 2015, when I really started to feel like myself again, I composed a “Petra is GONE” blog in my head. The update was to be titled “Back To Our Regularly Scheduled Programming” and it was going to be about poop.That’s...
by Kristina | Mar 17, 2016 | Life, Mountaineering
When I accepted the gig running membership and marketing at The Mountaineers, I had no idea it would unlock my secret, kinda-nerdy passion for mountaineering history. Sure I’d read pretty much all of the books on mountaineering when I was in college...
by Kristina | Mar 10, 2016 | Advice, Life
Two years ago my friend Loren died in a skiing accident. A huge February storm had rolled through the Pacific Northwest, and a bunch of us took extra days off to go skiing. He and a friend were skiing Crystal in-bounds on a Wednesday when Loren fell into a tree-well....
