Ode to the L.B.D.
We saw them hanging in our mothers’ closets. Did they exude a faint, exotic hint of cologne when we lifted dust covers? Did memories of...
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Virginia Kelley
- Aug 22
- 3 min
The Tiniest of Miracles
I cannot imagine a more thrilling moment than breaking the seal on a new tube of lipstick. Until you apply it, everything rides on hope...
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Virginia Kelley
- Aug 13
- 2 min
Fall’s Golden Glow
For many, the new year always officially begins when school re-opens in the fall. As the easy and carefree days of summer dwindle, a...
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Virginia Kelley
- Jul 23
- 2 min
Wrists and Earlobes
Two body parts that resist change as years accumulate deserve recognition. Let’s hear it for wrists. I collect bracelets, file them...
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Virginia Kelley
- Jul 3
- 2 min
So Near and Yet So Far Away
A shop instructor I had at college came to mind recently. “A tool is an extension of your hand” he said “and remember, it’s is a poor...
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Virginia Kelley
- Jun 11
- 2 min
Fanfare and Fascinators
This week, I watched part of the Platinum Jubilee marking 70 years of Queen Elizabeth II ’s reign. On June 2, 1953, I watched her...
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Virginia Kelley
- May 24
- 1 min
Heaven on Earth
When life gets oppressive and the TV news depressing, I’ve found a perfect escape. No matter the weather, this place is pastoral. Birds...
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Virginia Kelley
- May 13
- 2 min
God’s Technicolor World
I can’t imagine life without color. I live where winter is long and the world appears as if painted with a neutral, uninspired palette....
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Virginia Kelley
- May 6
- 1 min
Passing the Torch
To share your talents is advice that makes a lot of sense. Whatever skills you have can help enrich other’s lives. Recently, eight of my...
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Virginia Kelley
- Apr 16
- 2 min
Easter Awakening
As a teenager, Easter was a metamorphosis. Almost overnight, winter had passed and the sapling would sprout tender leaves. I knew that...
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Virginia Kelley
- Apr 4
- 2 min
How to Pray?
My mom Olive asked her older sister Hazel this question. I was little and wondered what the heck mom needed to pray about? Was something...
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Virginia Kelley
- Mar 19
- 1 min
A Condition of the Mind and Heart
While spring fever isn't an actual medical malady, it is real enough to anyone who has ever been stricken with it. It comes as winter...
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Virginia Kelley
- Mar 11
- 1 min
Abby’s Trip to the Vet
Our pets are family members. If only they could talk. Here is what a sweet dog Abby had to say to her mom, Melissa Miinte Stewart. Hi...
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Virginia Kelley
- Jan 23
- 2 min
Common Sense Creativity
Creativity is not merely an attribute of philosophers, scientists, or bearded sages. According to writer Maya Angelo, “We are all born...
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Virginia Kelley
- Jan 18
- 2 min
Wintry But Not Bleak
Winter is a time to hunker down and seek comfort. Where I live three months of glacial temperatures (December, January, and February)...
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Virginia Kelley
- Jan 9
- 2 min
First Steps in Kitten Heels
As if entering seventh grade wasn’t shocking enough getting an invitation to an affair called a Rush Tea indoctrinated me into a world as...
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Virginia Kelley
- Dec 29, 2021
- 2 min
Lift the Weight
The year-end holidays can take a toll. With so much to accomplish, I find myself speeding through days and at night sinking into sleep,...
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Virginia Kelley
- Dec 23, 2021
- 2 min
The World is Your Oyster
Artists are told that the more you create art the easier it is to find subjects to paint. It took a year of being quarantined for me to...
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Virginia Kelley
- Dec 18, 2021
- 2 min
Decked Out in Glad Rags
Humans unlike many species have no protective exoskeleton so, from the earliest time, due to practicality (and modesty) we garbed...
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Virginia Kelley
- Dec 5, 2021
- 2 min
Angels All Around Us
One definition of angel is God’s thoughts passing to man. What a concept! At college, in a required philosophy course, I floundered from...
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