by Kelli Donley | Dec 12, 2014 | Arizona, Public Health
Yesterday, I was awake before the neighborhood chickens. I dragged Nelson around the block before heading north and east, driving past Four Peaks just as the sky was beginning to show the first light of day. The saguaros near Roosevelt Lake stood sentry, and by the...
by Kelli Donley | Feb 19, 2014 | Arizona, Heirloom Hacienda, Public Health
As I do a few home repairs in my free time, I am entrenched at work in research on women in prisons. Specifically, I am reading about women who have substance abuse or serious mental illness and become jailed for whatever offense. The research isn’t great, and...
by Kelli Donley | Sep 13, 2013 | Get Fit, Public Health
I am participating in a veggie challenge at work this week. The idea was to encourage all colleagues to intentionally eat more veggies for five days. Each cup of veggies was scored at 2 points, while a cup of fruit was scored at one. (Couldn’t be easier to...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 29, 2013 | Happy Hippie, Politico, Public Health
May we learn from our past. There is a new war pending. Well, new to us. Thousands of Syrians are dead at the hands of other Syrians, with both sides likely using foreign-made (and secretly supported) weapons. War is shitty. It is shitty for the families who are...
by Kelli Donley | Jul 31, 2013 | Arizona, Public Health
There is a convenience store within walking distance of my new office. I can’t quite see it from my desk because of a large, thorny mesquite and clump of date palms. If I could, I’m sure that even in the middle of the afternoon, when temperatures in Phoenix made the...
by Kelli Donley | Dec 12, 2011 | Colorado, Community, Public Health
A few weeks ago I spoke at Ignite Boulder 17. My spark was ” V is for Victory Gardens.” The more I volunteer with hunger organizations, the more I realize this is a policy not supply issue. Rather than tackling the economic and political reasons causing...
