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,...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 25, 2009 | Faith, Journal, Media
My faith journey is quite a bit like sewing — a bit of perceived progress here, a bit of seam ripping there. Your comments to Sunday’s post about the “Novelist as God” have spurred me to once again consider what I believe and why. I’ll...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 24, 2009 | Domestic Art, Journal, Kitchen Talk
I love grocery shopping at ethnic stores. One of my local favorites is the Baiz Market. They have some of the best Middle Eastern food in town and aisles full of the most exotic ingredients you could imagine. The first time I visited, there were families preparing for...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 19, 2009 | Earth Mama, Happy Hippie, Journal
The pumpkins are growing at amazing speed, in part because I keep forgetting to turn the water off and they’ve received gobs of liquid love during the last month. Even those little African seeds have taken off; I swear there are days I come home from work to...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 16, 2009 | Community, Happy Hippie, Journal
We have this date palm at the community garden that came from two congregants who visited Israel in the 1970s and brought home a date. Needless to say, the palm is now giant and has a bunch of babies (shoots) around its trunk that are ready to be transplanted. I know...
