Seeing Grace
Holly Hubbard Preston had never met the person who delivers her newspaper in the middle of every night. She decided to change that.
MIA at the Library
What’s a library without a children’s librarian? Holly Hubbard Preston says the townspeople of St. Helena are finding out.
Chain of Good
In the lost and found of life, Holly Hubbard Preston learned that what you find isn’t necessarily what you were looking for.
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...
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...
Clara’s Sacrifice
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...
Acts of Grace
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...
A Name. A Life.
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...
Embracing Mortality
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...
The Lives of a City
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...
Promised Land or Last Resort?
NPR-San Francisco Affiliate, KQED Radio Perspectives Series Holly Hubbard Preston returns to the Mexican home of a recent immigrant.