About Mariacristina, by Christine Swint
A giftt from Typing Away, UL
I live in metro Atlanta with my husband, two boys, and two dogs. After teaching Spanish in the high school for several years, I’m switching gears. I now spend my days writing and teaching yoga, in addition to being a mother. If you’re interested in yoga, please visit my blog, yoga dreams.
Essay topics:
- dreams
- peace
- non-violence
- motherhood
- meditation
- writing
Unless I’ve tagged my post as an essay, what I write here is fiction: poems and short stories. I take poetic license in altering the events of my life, and more often than not what I write is complete fabrication.
My seventeen-year old son calls me a hippie, and disagrees with most of my opinions. Go figure. My fourteen year old humors me. He knows who makes the grilled cheese sandwiches in this house.
27 Comments
May 23, 2007 at 12:26 pm
My friend sent me your web page. What a beautiful site! Can’t wait to start reading.
Could we see more of your art?
June 20, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Hi Christina - Thanks for putting me on your blogroll and your kind comment. Is Lucy LaVerde your fictitious self? There is not much posted under that category and I am intensely curious about her trials, tribulations and joys with those hormonal adolescents. You are now on my blogroll and I look forward to my further readings of your candid writings!
July 25, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Christina,
So great to find you. Thank you for adding my blog to your site. Your recent post on depression was pretty poignant. Typically, I keep my blog posts on the surface, but, somehow, reading your post, and the raw honesty there, I’m going to give it a go and share some of my own personal lurkings. I have a name for my dear old friend, I call it: The Dread. It haunts me in waves, with debilitating potential, and even at its most faint remains consistently familiar. Anyway, I’ve spent most of my life writing in private about the Dread, I think today is a good day to finally share about it in a post. Thanks for the strength.
July 26, 2007 at 8:41 pm
I have also recently made the decision to quit teaching after 14 years and pursue a writing career. I’m glad I found your blog!
July 27, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Thanks for leading me to your site. I look forward to reading your archives. It is already inspirational! I can tell already that we have a lot in common. Anna Keck - Creative Thinking.
July 27, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Hi Maria, thought I’d drop by to say hullo. thanks for putting me on your blogroll.
Me too mom with two kids…rather teenagers. Oops, only one of them is a teenager as my elder daughter has just turned 20. And the younger one is 18. In India colleges are not always residential so both my daughters live at home. We have a full house and I love it! My elder one might leave soon though, when she gets a job after her graduation..less than a year from now. And the other has 2 years to go.
In the meantime its motherhood and writing for me! I hardly do any commercial work nowadays though, I am completely absorbed with my blog and my novel.
July 27, 2007 at 3:55 pm
So silly of me, going on and on about myself on your about page! Actually I wanted to tell you that I like the look of your blog and the subjects you write about. Will go through them…
August 4, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Thank you for posting about your own depression. I am a psychotherapist and writer abd new blogger. I have struggled with a lifelong cyclical depression that I only sought treatment for after I had children. I thought therapists weren’t supposed to get depressed. I was always able to work and help others even when dragging myself around, but I paid a price. Kay Redfied Jamison is a courageous psychologist and expert on bipolar disorder who suffers from it herself and wrote a book about it: An Unquiet Mind. You may have given me the courage to possibly write a post about this.
August 8, 2007 at 4:13 pm
Hi Christina! Just wanted to thank you for visiting my blog (Between the Lines) and leaving comments. And thanks, too, for leading me to your blog, which I have already marked as a favorite and will return to frequently. We do have a lot in common, being moms (mine are 10 and 12) with a teaching and writing background. The freelance writing road is a difficult one, isn’t it? I’m really more passionate about fiction and poetry writing, truth be told — your poems are wonderful. I’ve also suffered with depression and anxiety (mostly in the past, thank goodness, but still looms). Thanks again for connecting, and maybe we can help each other out as we both navigate this new road.
August 31, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Hi Christina. Thank you for visiting my Blog and in the process directing me to yours. The image on my Blog is from the cover of my book. I like what you have done with this site. It is very serene both visually and in the choices of topics you write about.
October 10, 2007 at 9:12 am
MariaChristina I tagged you for a meme and I had hoped a pingback would arrive here, but it hasn’t!
Do check this
post.
October 13, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Thanks for adding a link to my blog. I am truly honored.
October 13, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Neath, you do great work!
December 4, 2007 at 6:51 am
Thank you for your blogs! Yoga Dream and this one. Congratulations on your first time teaching!
December 27, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Loved this, I can relate, though mine are younger.
January 3, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Had to click the “about” page after stumbling here from 3WW because my wife’s first name is Maria Cristina, and you don’t see that so much in these parts, which can be surprising. I look forward to reading more of your fiction. I like very much the one post I’ve seen so far.
January 3, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Thanks, pjd. This month I’m doing a practice involving 100 words on dreams. 100 words each day, about the previous night’s dreams. Thanks for stopping by.
January 6, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Okay, I’m gone for a couple of weeks and come by and I’m not sure where I am. Please tell me you changed your layout and I’m not losing my mind? lol
I’d love to do a monthly book on each poet I listed but I don’t know how easy it would be for participants to find the collections. Anywhoo, let me give this some thought. I’m posting my first thoughts about Lorde tonight. I got a slow start but I’m going to pull this off, how well is questionable.
I have missed reading you. Glad to be back. Peace. Susan
February 9, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Hi C,
Please forward me the password to your piaster poem. Glad to hear you wrote one. Looking forward to the read.
February 21, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Hello, Christina, thanks for stopping my blog site and the note about my poem. I don’t have much time to read everything out there, but thank you for connecting so many mothers and writers. My kids are 1 and 4 1/2…. it get’s easier, right? To find time, I mean.
I’ll read you when I can!
March 4, 2008 at 10:56 pm
April 4, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Cristina, I’m bouncing back over from the note you left on my blog site. I hope you will add your 2 cents to the mix there. I love what you did with the avacodo and I’m looking around to see what else might catch my magpie eye here…
by the way, I’m mr mom these days, and loving the job.
April 8, 2008 at 8:49 pm
wow, i love the idea of 100 words a day on dreams. mine dissolve so quickly…
April 12, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Your site is amazing… I just love your essays! Its quite hard to get a hold of good sites these days, and in an atmosphere of depressing blogs, yours is a welcome relief, a breath of fresh air!
http://mirrorcracked.wordpress.com
April 14, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Hey, thanks for adding me on to your blogroll… It’s an honor i’m not sure I deserve…
April 16, 2008 at 7:05 am
I don’t know why I haven’t found your blog already. Its really nice read.
May 6, 2008 at 10:47 pm
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