by Kelli Donley | Feb 16, 2022 | Journal
I’m 42. Is this too late for a mid-life crisis? Do I really think I’ll see 84? Is this a crisis, or just the emotional exhaustion from playing viral hide-and-seek for more than two years? Some how, with international trips, an adult child going to college...
by Kelli Donley | Oct 11, 2021 | 2021, Journal, Public Health
I started a new job mid-August. I’m still working in both government and in public health, but for a new agency and in a new area. I’d worked in suicide prevention across the state for nearly a decade, and it was a great time to be involved in this field....
by Kelli Donley | Sep 18, 2018 | Journal
I’ve written a bit about our attempts at trying to have a baby. Status update: no luck yet. There is something profoundly lonely about infertility. And to be honest, not everybody who has experienced infertility knows about loneliness. Granted, there is the...
by Kelli Donley | Apr 3, 2018 | Journal
Remember in the 1990s when the song, “I wanna be like Mike!” was popular? My brother and I had the cassette single, which we played on the boom box on repeat for a summer. As children, we never stopped to wonder why we wouldn’t want to be a rich, famous athlete with...
by Kelli Donley | Oct 13, 2017 | Journal
Do you remember when Robert Downey Jr. appeared before a judge in the 1990s and was asked, “Why don’t you stop using drugs?” And his answer, to paraphrase, was something along the lines of “I have a gun in my mouth. It scares me. But I have...
by Kelli Donley | Jan 30, 2017 | Journal
A group of girlfriends I swam with in high school got together a few weeks ago. We had dinner and caught up — many of us not having seen each other for 19-plus years. It was fun to hear how everyone was. Most have children and every single one of us still loves...
