Cristel Gutschenritter OrrandPacemakers & Child’s Pose:A story about inheritance & intentionality, power & symbols, knowing & being, how we see & what makes our hearts beatAug 21, 2022Aug 21, 2022
Cristel Gutschenritter OrrandWas it Music or the Wind?A Third Culture Carpet Ride through the Jordanian Desert with Jackson Browne*May 23, 2022May 23, 2022
Cristel Gutschenritter OrrandThe Foster GardenWhen my neighbor, an environmental engineer, moved in six years ago, she meticulously planned her garden in excel sheets. She mapped the…May 9, 20221May 9, 20221
Cristel Gutschenritter OrrandKeeping the WatchForeword: I awoke to a treasure chest on my porch. My father didn’t call, didn’t knock; he just made a five-hour round trip drive to leave…May 1, 20221May 1, 20221
Cristel Gutschenritter OrrandRestorationForward: The object below may appear to be a secretary desk that was commissioned for my grandmother, by my grandfather, on their fifth…Apr 23, 2022Apr 23, 2022
Cristel Gutschenritter OrrandThe Case Against the Case Against Expanding NATO & Realpolitik SkisThis piece is a response to Charles A. Kupchan’s “Putin’s War in Ukraine Is a Watershed. Time for America to Get Real” in the New York…Apr 13, 2022Apr 13, 2022
Cristel Gutschenritter OrrandDid We Just Flatten the Hierarchy or Recreate Feudalism?Middle management layers have been decreasing for decades, but a few years ago, consultants gave COOs the idea we could really “flatten”…Mar 5, 2022Mar 5, 2022
Cristel Gutschenritter OrrandStill There: Desert Fatigues & the Waiting WarDriving six miles down a gravel road near Fort Riley, Kansas, the perpetual dust of hog farms and the crushed stalks of corn and alfalfa…Feb 26, 2022Feb 26, 2022
Cristel Gutschenritter OrrandGatekeepersA Short Story, South Carolina, February 1868.Feb 21, 2022Feb 21, 2022
Cristel Gutschenritter OrrandHard Candy & Soft Tissue: 9/11 Twenty Years LaterIt was another great American exceptionalism that foreign terrorism had never struck such a soft target on US soil before, at least not in…Sep 11, 2021Sep 11, 2021