by Kelli Donley | Nov 19, 2015 | Community
What a place we’ve made of this world. In the last week, we’ve seen Paris attacked by terrorists. Beirut, too. There have been countless other tragedies, including a handful in Africa that resulted in similarly unnecessary deaths, but without the same...
by Kelli Donley | Nov 17, 2015 | Writing
Our first date was nearly two years ago. He surprises me regularly with his thoughtfulness and ability to make me laugh — especially at myself. (His patience is demonstrated in laughing with me, for example, at the previous 14 chapters.) Two teenagers, three...
by Kelli Donley | Nov 15, 2015 | Writing
T asked me to have lunch with him the next week. It was a Monday and he was doing that “I might have something better” type of communication via text that makes me bubble with anger. Either make plans, or don’t. But stringing someone along until the...
by Kelli Donley | Nov 14, 2015 | Writing
Don’t you hate it when old adages are true? When cliche applies to your life? I do. It was annoyingly humorous I’d meet Jason “when I wasn’t looking.” Speaking of cliches, if I had a dollar for every time someone said, “Just stop...
by Kelli Donley | Nov 13, 2015 | Recipes, Writing
D and I met online. On our first date, we sat at a Starbucks in Scottsdale over a busy lunch hour chatting like gossipy high school girls about Rhianna. Her photos of being beaten by Chris Brown had just been released that morning and we had both seen them. I...
by Kelli Donley | Nov 12, 2015 | Writing
I recently listened to Amy Poehler’s audio book, Yes, Please! As a huge fan, this didn’t disappoint. There was one section that keeps bouncing around my brain, months later: a director once asked her to confess her vulnerabilities, regrets, sorrows. The...
by Kelli Donley | Nov 11, 2015 | Writing
This is the experience that in hindsight made me want to write a dating memoir. In 2007, I was play ultimate frisbee when a handsome ginger asked me out. S worked for the forest service and met all of my wild, hippie fantasies. He was soft spoken, a great athlete,...
by Kelli Donley | Nov 10, 2015 | Writing
We went on a long, overnight hike this weekend in the Superstitions. As we were marching along, in hour 3 or 4, I was thinking of the various times I’d gone into nature to find solace. Once, when trying to decide whether I wanted to stay in a relationship or...
by Kelli Donley | Nov 9, 2015 | Writing
When living in Colorado, I met a man through mutual friends. He was a bit younger, good looking, and from a great family. We would run into each other socially for a few months before he asked me out. We went for a dinner at a fancy spot downtown, got ice cream...
by Kelli Donley | Nov 7, 2015 | Media
(I’ve previously told this story here. It is worth re-telling.) Once, when running late for a date, and literally running, a bird took a dump on my head and chest. It was 2008. I was competing in triathlons and sat next to Harry at a cycling seminar. He asked me...
