About Me

by Krista

Hello and welcome to KristaHQ. My name is — surprise! — Krista and I live in West Palm Beach Florida, although I was born and raised in the great state of New York. (Long Island, specifically.) You may have run into me on my other blog, Passport Delicious, which I launched way back in 2004 when I first moved to London, England.

I started KristaHQ in April 2018 for a bunch of kinda unrelated reasons:

  1. I like to write things.
  2. I was debating going plastic free for a short period of time and I wanted to write about it. This is the “Aha! Moment” that made me set up this site. (Update: I did try and I made some changes but it’s really hard. Plastic is everywhere. This is a work in progress.)
  3. There are a lot of things I want to write about — like my mom’s Parkinson’s Disease  and elder care in general– that don’t fit into Passport Delicious, where I write about restaurants and travel.
  4. As I get older, I want to stay hip to the trends and the dying art of blogging helps me do that.
  5. My parents are getting older and so I knew I’d have to move to South Florida to be closer to them and wanted a place for my South Florida content.
  6. Maybe I will make some money doing this. (Maybe.)

These days, I work in education consulting. Prior to that, I spent 18 years in the financial services industry. (Something I want to write about — RETIREMENT INVESTING.) My current goals in life is are as follows:

  • Visit 100 countries. My original goal was to get that done by 2024 but the pandemic and my mom’s health got in the way. I have visited 78 so far.
  • Retire early, which requires a lot of saving and smart investing.

Three philosophies I live by: Always be on time. Book that flight. And you only need one space after a period, I swear.

Thanks for visiting!

Krista

Ethics Policy

(Borrowed from Seth Godin.)

On occasion, I’m delighted to accept products and samples, just to be nice. I have to tell you, though, that there’s no correlation between mentioning stuff and whether or not someone sent it to me. Forewarned! I would change this policy immediately if Elon sent me a Tesla.

My goal in creating this blog is to have an outlet for a lot of things in my head and keep me hip to the trends. I’m an amateur, not a professional.

If any of this changes, I promise to let you know.