A Glimpse Into My Life As A Musician's Wife.

About Me

Hi, I’m Krista.

Strategic communicator and storyteller.

I am the wife of a very talented musician who takes me around the world in pursuit of excellence. Mama to Jakob, Audrey and Ella, who just happens to have Down Syndrome.
And an aspiring disciple of Jesus, defender of the oppressed, writer, graphic designer and photographer.

I write and speak on navigating through the fog of life…you know, when things don’t go exactly as planned and am fuelled by a passion to amplify the voices of those on the margins…
oh, and coffee…lots of coffee.

I had written a post. It was amazing. “Some of your best work yet” my husband said. I wanted to save it and publish it this morning, being Monday, because it is bloggy rush hour and I knew it would get a lot of traffic but when I went to post it, it was gone. Not the post itself, I couldn’t have deleted the post because the title was still there but the content…not a word. And blogger autosaves! I have no idea what happened but when it wasn’t there, I got teary eyed. I felt like Hemingway when all of his manuscripts were stolen off a train except that no one stole my one petty blog post, which had no potential for monetary compensation and now I have no motivation to try and re-write it. The moment has passed. It wouldn’t be as the same. It wouldn’t be as good.

But do you know what I thought after I was sure that it was gone? I want to write something that is worth losing. It was just a blog post about how strange my life is. It wouldn’t have made me any money, made me famous or otherwise enriched the world at all. I feel so small and insignificant and I feel like my writing is trivial. Losing my post made me realize just how much I want to write something that I would consider a great tragedy to lose. Something really amazing, life-changing, paradigm shaking…..maybe one day.