by Kelli Donley | Jun 21, 2013 | Good to Great, Happy Hippie
I’ve been bugging Finny lately with more and more gardening questions. (You know, she’s a super star garden student now, right? Running her own gardening business, going to vegetable school. I’m fairly certain she even has some “hydro basil...
by Kelli Donley | Jun 20, 2013 | Kitchen Talk, Paleo
D and I are going paleo. This is the first week, and I would lick this computer screen if I thought it would give me the tiniest hit of sugar. Or a bump of booze. Or just a tiny crunch of foods I’ve never even craved before — like salt and vinegar potato...
by Kelli Donley | Jun 19, 2013 | Happy Hippie, NJ + NYC, Recycle, Reduce, Reuse
Recycling in New Jersey is a pain. I can only imagine the book of rules, no joke, was created as a deterrent. That said, I have yet to find a job and I’ve will happily jump through the necessary hoops to see that these items are sent to the right facility,...
by Kelli Donley | Jun 18, 2013 | Media
I bought this copy of Love Medicine on a whim while picking up groceries recently. I remembered loving Louise Erdrich from a Native American lit class I took in undergrad, but didn’t remember that I’d already read this novel. Come to find out, I...
by Kelli Donley | Jun 16, 2013 | Domestic Art, June Cleaver, Kitchen Talk
Prosecco, melon + prosciutto, turkey + artichoke stuffed shells, summer berry cobbler — a summer dinner shared with friends: ~K
by Kelli Donley | Jun 13, 2013 | Flora and Fauna, Happy Hippie, NJ + NYC
The second bed is in, and the first bed is going wild: Grow, little tomatoes — grow! The second bed is fairly uneven. I’m hoping the newspapers and other old carbons I put under the cardboard will help. Otherwise, I’ll watch the watering in the lower...
by Kelli Donley | Jun 11, 2013 | Domestic Art, handmade, Recipes
Easy peasy recipe if you have house guests and need a quick no-frosting cake: Take one chocolate cake mix (I like Betty Crocker triple fudge) Add 3 eggs, 1 cup of sour cream, 1 teaspoon of cayenne, 1 teaspoon of vanilla, 1 teaspoon of cardamom, 1/2 cup of oil and 1/4...
by Kelli Donley | Jun 11, 2013 | Flora and Fauna, NJ + NYC
A friend on Facebook made the point that New Jersey has issues with heavy metal. No, not Bon Jovi, but harmful waste in the soil. When I planted a vegetable garden several couple weeks ago — I went the lasagna route. Cardboard, newspapers and other carbons,...
by Kelli Donley | Jun 10, 2013 | NJ + NYC
Yesterday, I stood on Pier 66 in Manhattan in shorts and bare feet. And it. was. awesome. Some friends from Arizona are in town this week and they found a Groupon* for kayaking the Hudson. Along the edges of the pier, trash bobs in the waves. A corporate helipad sits...
by Kelli Donley | Jun 8, 2013 | Faith, Media
I recently finished Rachel Held Evan’s “A Year of Biblical Womanhood.” I was unfamiliar with Evans, or her popular blog on Christianity, until my friend Sarah and her husband Matt visited Colorado last summer. They mentioned Evans as a voice for...
