by Kelli Donley | Sep 7, 2009 | Faith, Journal, Media
This week’s Speaking of Faith focuses on the practice of yoga and connecting spiritually during practice. I had heard this episode before and enjoyed listening to it again now that I am regularly taking yoga. Seane Corne described getting out of a life of drugs...
by Kelli Donley | Sep 5, 2009 | Domestic Art, Happy Hippie, June Cleaver, Kitchen Talk
One summer about six years ago, I watched 4th of July fireworks from a crabbing boat in the Puget Sound. Ask me what I remember about that trip, other than freezing my shorts and flip flopped-butt off? The food. Other than the absolute best seafood I’ve ever...
by Kelli Donley | Sep 4, 2009 | Community, Domestic Art, Happy Hippie, June Cleaver, Kitchen Talk
When a Burundian family left for another state earlier this month, their community garden plot of okra was ready for harvest. Having never eaten okra before, I wasn’t sure what to do with these vegetables. After two weeks of trying to get church members to take...
by Kelli Donley | Sep 3, 2009 | Journal
Driving through Scottsdale last night, I passed a talent agency office I’d never before noticed. I thought about the queues of the young and beautiful who must visit this place — with dreams of Hollywood and fame fueling their collective fire. I have to...
by Kelli Donley | Sep 2, 2009 | Domestic Art, Journal, Media, Sew Along
Finny, May I just say, welcome home birthday girl! So glad you were able to get away to Maui to celebrate your anniversary and the big blowing out of candles. Your photos make me want time in a hammock with a very tan man and a pina colada. What? Too honest? Mahalo! I...
by Kelli Donley | Sep 1, 2009 | Domestic Art, Journal, Kitchen Talk
Banana Squash Oat Bread Ingredients: 4-6 cups oats (eyeball it) 4-6 bananas, mashed 2 squash (zucchini, etc), grated 4 eggs 1/3 cup oil 1 1/2 cup water 1 spice cake mix 1 tablespoon cinnamon Directions: Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease three bread pans. Cook 42-45...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 31, 2009 | Arizona, Community, Flora and Fauna, Happy Hippie
There is something so spectacularly beautiful about the tenderness growing in the garden. The wateremelon, squash and pumpkin have all sent out these fragile, curling twiny arms — searching for something to cling to. The blooms are cantalope orange and stay...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 30, 2009 | Faith, Journal, Media
This week’s Speaking of Faith discussed one African’s view of foreign aid. Specifically, Binyavanga Wainaina is angry with the way Kenyans have been portrayed in international media and how Africans in general are thought of as poor, dying orphans. He...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 28, 2009 | Arizona, Journal
August, I won’t miss you. Let’s be clear — it’s you, not me. By the time you show up, I’m a cranky mess and by the time you leave, I’m beyond battered. This year you didn’t even bring monsoons. Do you know how much I look...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 27, 2009 | Journal, Media
Today is the 45th anniversary of one of my favorite movies of all time — Mary Poppins. Oh, sing it with me, “Just a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down… in the most delightful way!” If you haven’t seen this movie lately,...
