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...
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...
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...
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...
KQED Radio Perspective Both Holly Hubbard Preston and her friend Clara are making sure their children get a higher education. But what Clara has sacrificed to do so is astounding. Last month my husband and I sent the last of our three children...
NPR-San Francisco Affiliate, KQED Radio Perspectives Series Northern California has been united in tragedy this past week. But it has also been united in something else perhaps bigger than tragedy – acts of grace. Holly Hubbard Preston has...
Holly Hubbard Preston For the St. Helena Star LONE PINE, California – Anyone who knows Juan and Federico Sanchez, St. Helena’s beloved “running men,” is aware of their legendary abilities to cover great lengths of the Napa Valley on foot – day or...
Holly Hubbard Preston For the Napa Valley Register When Juan Sanchez crossed the finish line of the 30th annual STYR Labs Badwater 135 ultramarathon, he didn’t take the outstretched hands waiting to congratulate him. Instead, he grabbed his three...
NPR-San Francisco Affiliate, KQED Radio Perspectives Series I was walking my dog last week past our local cemetery when I saw a block of black granite behind the fence. The City of St. Helena put it there to honor our town’s fallen...
NPR-San Francisco Affiliate, KQED Radio Perspectives Series Mortality gets a bad rap. So many people I know fear it, wish it weren’t so. Not me. I see mortality as a thing to be embraced the way one would a child, up close and with tender...
It’s a Wednesday morning in mid-December. I sit eating breakfast alone at my kitchen table, listening to the news while glancing at the day’s headlines in the New York Times. Ten time zones away, Eastern Aleppo is falling to Russian-backed...
Nearly two decades ago I accompanied a friend to the remote village in Southern Mexico where she’d grown up. At 17, Graciela crossed illegally into the United States. This was her first trip home in ten years. Over lunch one day, Graciela’s...
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