Kelly's Blog

Some people complain about predictable plots, and I have to smile because some of the most memorable, most popular stories like Pretty Woman, Misery, The Hangover…

Yes, I know I didn’t write my blog for a few months. Finding a team to help me re-publish Beautiful Evil Winter required a lot of time and energy especially with the holiday stopwatch ticking loudly.  Very happy to report that the 2014 version of the book exceeds my...

The Bedazzling Benefits of the Bountiful Book Bend to grab the book on the bottom shelf, and stretch or jump to reach the book on the top shelf. Why?  Reading books can enrich our lives in several surprising ways- ·       Reading books produces physical results by...

Alright, I know. I didn’t post a blog on the 4th, but it certainly loomed heavily on my mind. A family vacation which began on the 2nd and ended on the 8th proved to be a stumbling block. Of course, the fact that my husband’s steely glare surfaced every time I...

Doses of Dad As Father’s Day approaches, I feel a wellspring of gratitude for my Dad who encourages me to excel and who mandated higher education in our home. When I couldn’t decide on a major, Dad advised me to pursue Finance, a practical and flexible option. He...

As Mother’s Day approaches, I pause to think about the fact that being my son’s mother remains the most treasured experience of my life. I don’t care about being honored. I feel honored and blessed to see his smile, to laugh at his jokes and to straighten his bow tie...

   It’s Spring Break, and we finally accomplish our bucket list goal of traveling to Europe albeit as chaperones for a school trip. Peripateticism takes on a new meaning as we embark on a whirlwind trip to experience three cities in 2 countries in 5 days using...

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." --William Arthur Ward Thanks to the hundreds of readers who added my book to their shelves and registered for my Giveaways. The wellspring of support and interest amazes, inspires...

     As cameras close-in on the Russian Alps, expectations begin to tower like chips at a Vegas casino table.  Besides bets on the Super Bowl game, there’s speculation about Olympic medal counts with oddsmakers sure to chime-in. Yet, we don’t hear complaints from the...

Cheesecake, hard candy and cherry pie. Oh, my! Okay, surfing through the Thanksgiving holidays proves to be trying but successful. Now, the next wave of challenges awaits us—Christmas parties, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve parties and the all-encompassing fog of New...