Katrina Woznicki

Menu
  • Home
  • Writing
  • Contact
Menu

Tag: San Francisco

Ich Bin Ein Californian

Posted on August 20, 2015August 21, 2015 by katrina

The pilot sounded giddy, like some waiter stoked about what the chef was concocting in the kitchen, as if the weather forecast was this awesome meteorological entree he couldn’t wait to dish up. And he was right. It was the smoothest transcontinental flight I had ever been on. Ever. The seat belt sign was barely…

Read more

A Short Meditation on New York City Dog Pee

Posted on July 27, 2015July 27, 2015 by katrina

New York City smells of dog pee. This is a cyclical event and very similar to the time when it’s ok for women to wear white pants, usually beginning around the Fourth of July festivities and wrapping up around Labor Day weekend. Everyone who lives and works in this area knows this. There are who-knows-how-many-dogs…

Read more

Why Travel?

Posted on July 17, 2014July 17, 2014 by katrina

It’s been a bumpy year for freelance work so far. Projects have fallen through for different reasons, everything from someone assigning something to someone else while my editor was on vacation to a grant wrapping up to budget freezes. Belt-tightening is the wrong time to think about travel, and yet, that’s exactly what I am…

Read more

Getting Our West-of-the-Mississippi Fix

Posted on June 21, 2014June 23, 2014 by katrina

In the thick of another hazy morning in downtown Los Angeles, my thoughts were clear. We had spent too much money on travel in 2013, and I knew we had to change our ways. A two-week summer trip that combined Los Angeles with Monterrey would be expensive (and totally awesome, but expensive), and if 2014…

Read more

24 Hours in San Francisco – Beanies & Bikinis (Pack Both!)

Posted on October 6, 2012 by katrina

Mark Twain once said “the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” The typical summer day in San Francisco rarely tops 70 degrees. The day we were there the thermometer sputtered to reach 60. We drove up from Los Angeles and added layers with each passing hour during the ride. When…

Read more

Recent Work

OFFASSIGNMENT: 6:32 A.M. AT BOUDHANATH STUPA in Kathmandu is a rapid current of silence and hope, a clockwise ritual that welcomes me without question. I can come. I can go. I can pray. I can walk and pretend to pray. It is the hour of the observant, of chants and prostrations, of prayer and potential... continue reading

Contact me for freelance opportunities or to learn more about one-on-one manuscript consulting.
  • Privacy Policy
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
© 2025 Katrina Woznicki | Powered by Minimalist Blog WordPress Theme