Shot Glass
As a structural element, walls have many uses. In addition to separating people and spaces, walls hold up roofs and provide a hiding place for electrical equipment and the occasional mouse.
Stone Spirit Revival
I’m in the Hawaiian Islands this week for the Kauai Writer’s Conference that was taken online after I’d already booked my flight and lodging. So here I am working, swimming and also reading.
The Hole in the Wall
The guidebook promised us the one place in all of West Berlin where no physical barrier existed between the two Germanys. And here it was. Wide enough to allow railcar passage, this singular gap in the famous Cold War all lay at the end of a wide...
Field of My Dreams
The field pictured above is a real place, located near the border separating the neighboring German states of Bavaria and Thuringia. I remember being weak in the knees as I snapped the shot. About five months earlier I’d pictured this place...
The Wall2Wall Project
Since early childhood, I’ve been preoccupied with walls. Imprinted in my earliest memory is an illustration of a boy on a swing peering over a wall. The picture sits alongside a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson aptly named “The Swing”. My mother...
Virtual Book Talk: The Last Nomad
Napa Bookmine Author Event // Shugri Said Salh – The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert On August 4, 2021, Napa Bookmine presented a virtual event with Shugri Said Salh in conversation with local writer Holly Hubbard Preston...
Virtual Author Hour with Carol Edgarian
New York Times bestselling author Carol Edgarian and Holly Hubbard Preston discuss Carol’s latest novel, VERA, on Thursday, June 3rd 2021. This grand adventure set in 1906 San Francisco features an unforgettable heroine coming of age in the...
Girl Growing
First published by online literary journal, Herstry. Elise is standing in front of her dresser mirror, a tangerine in one hand, a wad of Kleenex tissue in the other. Her dark-eyed reflection stares back at me beneath a fringe of stylish...
Burned to the Bone
NPR-San Francisco Affiliate, KQED Radio Perspectives Series Affordable housing in the Napa Valley is as urgent a problem as it is elsewhere and this year’s devastating fires have only made it worse. Holly Hubbard Preston has this...
Former St. Helenan treks across Norway, raises $1.07 million for PKU awareness
Holly Hubbard Preston for the St. Helena Star TRONDHEIM, Norway — Former St. Helena mother Alison Michaux Reynolds completed her nine-day trek across Norway at the end of last month beneath a blue, windless sky that belied the brutal weather she...
Crossing for a Cure — Former St. Helena mother risks it all to raise funds for a rare disease
Holly Hubbard Preston for the St. Helena Star Of the many reasons a person might risk life and limb, fundraising isn’t usually one — unless you are Alison Michaux Reynolds. Reynolds, a one-time St. Helena resident known to many locals by her...
When Walls Fall
NPR-San Francisco Affiliate, KQED Radio Perspectives Series Walls – whether meant to keep people out or kept them in, separated and apart – have a way of falling. With the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at hand, Holly Hubbard...