by Kera Abraham Panni | Jul 27, 2026 | Stories
One of the services I offer through KAP Consulting is editorial management. Here’s what that looked like on a recent project. Last winter I was managing editor of Asilomar Magazine, a 113-page hybrid literary magazine and visitors’ guide for Asilomar State...
by Kera Abraham Panni | Jun 24, 2026 | Stories
During his first week as a Monterey Bay Aquarium Teen Conservation Leader, my teenage son texted me a photo. It was an exhibit panel about plastic pollution, and I was on it, holding a selfie frame with jazz pianist Gerald Clayton and then-Monterey Jazz Festival...
by Kera Abraham Panni | Jun 18, 2026 | Storytelling & narrative
Good food shouldn’t be thrown away. Every mom and grandma I’ve met would agree. Yet we live in a society that generates unfathomable food waste. The USDA estimates 30-40% of the U.S. food supply goes uneaten; most of that waste happens in stores and homes....
by Kera Abraham Panni | Jan 25, 2026 | Stories, Storytelling & narrative
My 12-year-old son and I were hiking with some friends at Big Sur Land Trust’s Marks Ranch when TJ fell back from our group. I found him squatting next to a cluster of what looked like lily leaves – broad, veiny sheaths opened flat to the sun. Among them was a...
by Kera Abraham Panni | Jun 23, 2025 | Brand voice & identity, Community building, Storytelling & narrative
In my living room, by the kids’ instruments and the dog’s favorite chill spot, lives a Swedish ivy with a presidential lineage. This trailing plant — with shiny green leaves and ambitious stems that cascade over the pot’s edges — began as a cutting from my...
