Cristel Gutschenritter OrrandPacemakers & Child’s Pose:A story about inheritance & intentionality, power & symbols, knowing & being, how we see & what makes our hearts beat·7 min read·Aug 21, 2022----
Cristel Gutschenritter OrrandWas it Music or the Wind?A Third Culture Carpet Ride through the Jordanian Desert with Jackson Browne*·5 min read·May 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…·4 min read·May 9, 2022--1--1
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…·5 min read·May 1, 2022--1--1
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…·6 min read·Apr 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…·6 min read·Apr 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”…·4 min read·Mar 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…·3 min read·Feb 26, 2022----
Cristel Gutschenritter OrrandGatekeepersA Short Story, South Carolina, February 1868.·16 min read·Feb 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…·4 min read·Sep 11, 2021----