@krisfaatz.bsky.social
She/her/hers. Writer, pianist, choro enthusiast, cat mom. Explorer of wild places. Author of Fourteen Stones and Line Magic; stories in Atticus Review & others. krisfaatz.com
Thanks so much for reading; glad you enjoyed!
11.11.2025 18:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks so much! NYC Midnight is outstanding!
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A little meditative exercise on my Substack column today. If you need a few minutes to breathe, please check it out. bit.ly/4iKkyZ0
12.03.2025 13:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some mornings, your cat is waiting to greet you the moment you get up, and he climbs in your lap and purrs and tells you you’re the best mom ever.
Other mornings, your reception looks like this. (Upside-down printing on box included in overall mood.)
A little piano music on my Substack column this morning: Sinfonia No. 13 in A Minor, by J. S. Bach. Please have a listen (and make a musical request if you'd like!).
bit.ly/4ku0c81
Absolutely did not expect to make it to the finals in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social 250-word microfiction challenge. Can’t wait for the new prompt this weekend. Congratulations to my fellow finalists!
06.03.2025 04:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A little meditation today on my Substack column, to help create mental space in the chaos. If you'd like, please have a look. open.substack.com/pub/krisfaat...
05.03.2025 20:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Daily hug from Fergus Cat.
04.03.2025 23:10 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chop Wood, Carry Water 3/4
Chop Wood, Carry Water is one of my favorite columns. Excellent notes here on how to respond to the attack on the Social Security Admin.
open.substack.com/pub/chopwood...
Daily hug from Fergus Cat. Sound on. 😸
03.03.2025 18:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A little Monday meditation today on my Substack column, imagining the life of trees. Please check it out! bit.ly/41mgUxu
03.03.2025 14:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We want to send a message to the world: what has happened today is an absolute disgrace. It is completely un-American.
28.02.2025 20:41 — 👍 38578 🔁 5895 💬 520 📌 188
Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine
Chop Wood, Carry Water 2/28
I love this column and the action items in it every day. (My reps are probably sick of hearing from me.) Please check it out.
open.substack.com/pub/chopwood...
Thank you for this reminder! I’d planned to look into applying to Porches this year. 🙂
28.02.2025 18:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My husband and I are participating, and we also canceled our Amazon Prime account today.
28.02.2025 18:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Morning, Bluesky! Man, the FB ban today is harder for me than the spending ban... ;) It's so good to be made aware of how heavily I lean on that particular outlet.
Just wanted to share a little meditation, if you could use it going into the weekend: open.substack.com/pub/krisfaat...
A little music for your Friday, on my Substack column today. Take a three-minute breather. bit.ly/3WRbXeM
07.02.2025 20:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Feline hug from Fergus and Templeton.
05.02.2025 19:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My "A Place to Stand" Substack column for today features the second movement of Beethoven's Pathetique sonata. If you'd like a little musical meditation/breath of peace, please check it out: krisfaatz.substack.com/p/musical-me...
05.02.2025 15:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today's Substack column on staying grounded in these times, with a meditative exercise: krisfaatz.substack.com/p/anchoring-...
04.02.2025 20:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hey, so I'm attempting a Substack column on attempting to stay grounded in these times. "A Place to Stand" draws on my experience as a survivor of an abusive narcissist & talks about why it matters to hang onto personal identity. If you'd like, please give it a look.
bit.ly/3WF71cz
Agree. I've just been thinking about how this ends. Hard to imagine it won't go military, one way or another (outside intervention from our former allies or internal resistance).
03.02.2025 17:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You may need a moment of sanity. Fergus provides a purr.
03.02.2025 02:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My co-editor says it’s about time I was writing again…
26.01.2025 21:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In case a cat picture would improve your day: this is Fergus, napping, with other cat Templeton’s tail covering his head. Apparently this enhances the sleeping experience. 🤔
24.01.2025 20:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hear, hear.
23.01.2025 15:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is Fergus, my co-editor, writing class TA, and self-assigned therapy cat. He knows we need hugs in these times, and sends them to all.
23.01.2025 15:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Your daily hug from Fergus Cat.
22.01.2025 19:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If I had a hammer…
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