Waves Come in Sets:
On Life, Travel and the People
We Meet In Between
A nomadic memoir served up in snackable vignettes.
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Waves Come in Sets is a collection of nearly 300 pieces written in the weeks, months and years of a nomadic life. Each one was born from paying attention to what was right in front of me—whether that was in the ancient silence of Parrocchia San Nicolò di Bari in Sicily or in the face of a fed up writer eating eggs a few diner stools down in LA or in the internal geysers of existential questions fizzing from within. As I lived and distilled them into words, I noticed a simple revelation burned into every single one: Life can only and will only meet you in the very minute you’re in. This second is the only pinhole it has; the only pinhole you have.
There is no other time.
Where to find it.
Amazon.ca
Thought Catalog
Amazon.com
Apple Books
“Your writing is the literary equivalent of the phrase “salt of the earth” to me in all ways; something about it feels so natural, like I'm really getting a slice of your response to being alive.”
Beyond the book.
Call these online accoutrements —
nourishing additions to the book you can bite into whether you
have a mild craving, a ravenous curiosity or a belly for the whole buffet.
Beyond the book, but IRL.
There’s something about breaking bread at a dinner table that speaks most truly to the nature of
our human experience. We’re here to meet, to look each other in the eye, to be seen and to drink from the bounty of what’s so generously provided and given to us in this life. Being present inside that sacred experience is one of the greatest gifts we can give each other, and it’s the deepest intention with my on-going dinner series, Table for Four.
Table for Four is a weekday dinner series to celebrate the book, our lives and all the regular glue that holds us all together.
Wanna grab dinner?
The original series was fully enjoyed this past January and February in my beloved Los Angeles, but we’ll soon be dining north. Sign up for dates in Calgary this May, and stay tuned for more feasts to follow.
Don’t take my word for it.
Listen to my friends.
“You’re able to digest the complexities of the environment around you and form a visual through words that lets me (and I’m assuming many others) travel with you. You excavate hard terrain and crack open the earth so the rainwater can seep in.”
—Elizabeth McManus
“You verbalize what we internalize. In a way, it breaks the contract of shame around a lot of things we don't talk about because it’s uncomfortable. We don’t want to overshare, scare people, freak people out, for them to think we’re weird, but a lot of the things you write about actually just describe the complexity of humanity.”
—Bex Billington
“You have a great way of witnessing the small exchanges and nuanced mannerisms between humans and their inner worlds, and you bring attention to how huge or consequential those small fleeting moments can be. You're a pursuer of life while it's happening and not where it might be going, and I think that is a distinctly Kreeft trademark.”
—Kevin Chapman
Know a shelf that
could use a good wave?
It would be my pleasure to send a signed copy anywhere in the world to an independent bookstore keeping free speech, creative autonomy and self-expression alive and in our physical hands.
Thank you for throwing any suggestions or connections my way.
“I’ve always known that to write, I have to live. At least that was the only way to get any good blood out of me. I couldn’t just sit at a desk and breathe prose. There had to be a point A to point B, some movement, whether internationally or internally, but always intentionally. It could be within my own town or to another point on the planet or simply sitting across from someone or bumping into a total stranger in line somewhere, but life had to be happening, so I sought out that life.
This is what I wrote along the way.”