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...
Nine time zones away from where I sit tonight someone in Germany is awaking to celebrate the 27th Anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall. This at the same time the American populous is coming to terms with a new president who has pledged...
Writer Holly Hubbard Preston’s short story, “Blue Nocturne,” was published for TSR: The Southampton Review.
NPR-San Francisco Affiliate, KQED Radio Perspectives Series Crossing the Bay Bridge into San Francisco, the impression is of a city neatly built — layer upon layer, year after year, one grand building preceding another. That such a thriving...
From The Southampton Review A work of short fiction, published in the final months of graduate school, that draws from the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and explores the age-old boundaries of mortal longing and surrender.
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