Author: Kristin Sample

Penne a la Vodka (five ingredients)
family . food . long island . nostaglia🍝Penne a la Vodka (Five ingredient sauce). 🍝This is the pasta I make for my family at least once a week. 🍝Actually, I make it in a big batch and then freeze the sauce in ziplock containers. 🍝This recipe is from Gino’s Pizzeria in Elmont where I worked as a waitress for about seven years. Read More

Just an FYI for my fellow writers. The following publication are accepting submissions… The New Yorker The Georgia Review The Sun Oxford American The Missouri Review The Antioch Review AGNI The New England Review Harper’s The Gettysburg Review The Paris Review Yes, I know these are elite pubs. In fact, I read once that you Read More

Quarantine & Chill
C.K. . family . fiction . health . UncategorizedWe are really on week two because we spent most of Spring Break “quarantined” as well. Here’s some highlights and lowlights… The week started off pretty crappy with me trying to “homeschool” the kids myself. We didn’t have any work yet, but I decided that “momschool” would be in session from day one. We were Read More

Hey everyone! Thanks to everyone who reached out about reading Stagecraft on the Kindle. It’s available now for only $1.99! Yes, you can still read it for free on the blog but if you want the whole thing right now OR if you want it on your Kindle device/app, you should buy it. Bonus: Buying Read More

Homeschooling–Captain’s Log Day 1
education . family . motherhood . texasWe did some language arts this morning. How I wish I could just be like “Read for an hour” while I go screw around on my laptop and maybe answer an email. That wouldn’t work. They need more structure than that. It went well for Jackson. He read for a solid thirty minutes than did Read More

Next week, starting on Monday, I’ll be publishing my novel STAGECRAFT here under the tab Read Stagecraft (FREE). Every few days, I’ll post another chapter. So it will be serialized. Just like how Charles Dickens used to do. Except I won’t get paid like him or be responsible for some of the greatest British novels Read More

First publication of 2020
fiction . long island . nostagliaEven though “ren fair” is the first story I wrote from One Square Mile, it’s not the first publication. Read More

The Sample family “best of ” from 2019
C.K. . family . petsRead the Sample family’s “best of” 2019 and our words or advice for 2020. You’re welcome, internet. Read More

The Sample family Christmas letter: 2019 edition
C.K. . family . friends . health . long island . motherhood . pets . texas . travelRead the Sample family Christmas letter. Read More

No Christmas Mailing this year
family . friends . nostaglia . shoppingA few weeks back, I got a Return to Sender card in the mail. I opened it and found it was a Christmas card I’d sent to a family in North Carolina.
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