by Kelli Donley | Oct 23, 2011 | Colorado, Community, Good to Great, Novel
I’ve been haunted by insomnia lately. This happens about once a year. I’ll go 3-4 weeks without a good night’s sleep, waking around 2 am for 2-3 hours at a stretch. Some nights I just lie there, rolling the day around in my head, like a bowling ball...
by Kelli Donley | Oct 19, 2011 | Colorado, Nelson
I drove WNM to the vet today for a teeth cleaning. Poor thing is so smart, we got out of the car and he — my otherwise curious and overly confident pooch — walked with shaky legs up to the front door, knowing precisely where we were and that he never...
by Kelli Donley | Oct 18, 2011 | Colorado, Community, Public Health
I attended a community meeting a couple weeks ago for an organization called Hunger Free Colorado. They are the lobbying arm of the Feeding America-fueled food banks in the state. They take direction from the five food bank leaders state-wide on what to lobby with...
by Kelli Donley | Oct 16, 2011 | Colorado, Happy Hippie
Pike’s Peak I’ve been hiking around Evergreen in Jefferson County open space for the last several months. The one hike that’s alluded me — until this weekend — was the 10 mile round-trip summit of Bergen Peak. Five miles one way...
by Kelli Donley | Oct 12, 2011 | Colorado, Flora and Fauna, Nelson
Friends! You are my friend, right? I mean, everyone is my friend — especially if you let me sniff your butt first. Even Chaco is my friend and he took a bite out of my ear last week, wearing a short-bus cone. Friend! Let’s go to the park. I LOVE the park,...
by Kelli Donley | Oct 10, 2011 | Colorado
Over a snowy breakfast this weekend in Evergreen with my friend Alma, we heard a bull elk has been seen repeatedly downtown with windchimes in his antlers. Apparently the creature isn’t as afraid of man, or porches, as he probably should be. The local barista...
