by Kelli Donley | Jun 14, 2016 | Media, Writing
More than a year ago, I sent my second novel, “Basket Baby” off to a small publishing house in Montana. A friend of mine had success in publishing with them, and spoke highly of their work. She said she’d put in a good word. They read the first few...
by Kelli Donley | Nov 17, 2015 | Writing
Our first date was nearly two years ago. He surprises me regularly with his thoughtfulness and ability to make me laugh — especially at myself. (His patience is demonstrated in laughing with me, for example, at the previous 14 chapters.) Two teenagers, three...
by Kelli Donley | Nov 15, 2015 | Writing
T asked me to have lunch with him the next week. It was a Monday and he was doing that “I might have something better” type of communication via text that makes me bubble with anger. Either make plans, or don’t. But stringing someone along until the...
by Kelli Donley | Nov 14, 2015 | Writing
Don’t you hate it when old adages are true? When cliche applies to your life? I do. It was annoyingly humorous I’d meet Jason “when I wasn’t looking.” Speaking of cliches, if I had a dollar for every time someone said, “Just stop...
by Kelli Donley | Nov 13, 2015 | Recipes, Writing
D and I met online. On our first date, we sat at a Starbucks in Scottsdale over a busy lunch hour chatting like gossipy high school girls about Rhianna. Her photos of being beaten by Chris Brown had just been released that morning and we had both seen them. I...
by Kelli Donley | Nov 12, 2015 | Writing
I recently listened to Amy Poehler’s audio book, Yes, Please! As a huge fan, this didn’t disappoint. There was one section that keeps bouncing around my brain, months later: a director once asked her to confess her vulnerabilities, regrets, sorrows. The...
