Streetlight Magazine | Deborah Kelly | Activity https://streetlightmag.com/members/deborah/activity/ Activity feed for Deborah Kelly. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:14:08 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 2bf238906bb7d53b8fe8b8fc33831d42 Deborah Kelly wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=35869 Mon, 08 May 2023 11:00:45 -0400 It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll . . . at 1 p.m. on a Wednesday by Celia Rivenbark Oh, thank you, Jamie Lee Curtis, for bringing to the nation’s attention a problem that many of us, er, “seasoned citizens” have been too embar […]

]]> a2f5be6f0f635f2306f20af59e6db631 Deborah Kelly wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=35126 Mon, 02 Jan 2023 12:00:54 -0500 When I was about twelve years old, I found John Christopher’s YA Tripods books in the library. In this series, the humans on Earth have reverted to an agricultural, village-based society dominated by aliens who s […]

]]> 743d750d42946d4ba2200647402ed4d8 Deborah Kelly wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=35042 Mon, 12 Dec 2022 11:00:10 -0500 Turning sixty last month mandated a driver’s license renewal that replaced my wide-eyed forty-year-old self with a puffy-eyed, wrinkly-necked person unmistakably related to the round-faced woman who gave me l […]

]]> c32fa2e347ff9c502dc9c60ce9698f52 Deborah Kelly wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=33933 Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:00:14 -0400 We had been married a little over a year when I had an abortion.

Put down your rocks and torches. If I had not had the abortion, I might well have died.

Not so simple now, is it? If I had been your wife, […]

]]> bf10ba8d33565e29c7ba06e7e4847c65 Deborah Kelly wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=33250 Mon, 07 Mar 2022 12:00:33 -0500 Meditation has been proven to manage stress and anxiety, increase focus, and interrupt negative thought patterns. For a variety of reasons, however, many people don’t feel that traditional meditation is for t […]

]]> 2eb8a4a707d181c7a6d8f0d9ab883462 Deborah Kelly wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=32356 Mon, 08 Nov 2021 13:00:34 -0500  

The “rat whisperer,” as he had been jovially described to me by his co-worker who performs my regular pest control service, had been summoned. He was admirably punctual, masked and wearing starched khak […]

]]> 87ef4fac5aafb6cc6107fbd29f871695 Deborah Kelly wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=32120 Mon, 06 Sep 2021 10:00:09 -0400  

One of the most surprising things I’ve discovered about writing is that while putting words on the page can be a solitary act, “being a writer” can’t be.

Mind The Gap
There is a gap between what peo […]

]]> b5303d585fd791c24f59f6ed4806970c Deborah Kelly commented on the post, The Kidney Hoarder By Bess Wiley https://streetlightmag.com/2021/07/05/the-kidney-hoarder-by-bess-wiley-july-5-2021/#comment-273656 Mon, 05 Jul 2021 13:51:26 -0400 So uplifting and beautiful. Thank you. I needed that.

]]> 616b9551bf749ae0d4fd010cd3135522 Deborah Kelly commented on the post, Getting Unhooked by Hilary Holladay https://streetlightmag.com/2021/05/17/a-personal-vaccine-by-hilary-holladay/#comment-258942 Sat, 29 May 2021 10:00:42 -0400 Lots of much-needed wisdom here. Thanks for a beautiful reminder of the power of compassion.

]]> 2f50f09f7d3b4c96888afa0294f27bb7 Deborah Kelly commented on the post, My Most Memorable Patient by Roselyn Elliott https://streetlightmag.com/2021/02/19/my-most-memorable-patient-by-rose-eliot/#comment-233431 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:03:04 -0400 Don’t know how I missed this back in February but glad I found it now … Such a beautifully written account of loving empathy I couldn’t stop reading, even though I should be working. Today’s pandemic has shown […]

]]> 26596e60ee8055a1ac7a613c6131423c Deborah Kelly wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=31155 Mon, 15 Mar 2021 10:00:59 -0400 Mary, Mary, quite contrary . . . a splat from my Charlottesville restauranting days . . .

From the mid-1970s until the early 1980s, I co-owned a couple of Charlottesville restaurants with my second ex-husband. […]

]]> ba888729f894c5dffeecda8a3ea2f82b Deborah Kelly commented on the post, Nothing but Light: Works by David Summers https://streetlightmag.com/2021/03/05/nothing-but-light-works-by-david-summers/#comment-223761 Fri, 05 Mar 2021 13:18:38 -0500 Gorgeous work and beautifully written! Bravo!

]]> ffdbed4511e9089892dfef826c40bb66 Deborah Kelly commented on the post, Where Are My Words? by Pamela Potter https://streetlightmag.com/2021/03/01/where-are-my-words/#comment-222290 Mon, 01 Mar 2021 12:53:36 -0500 Looks like her writing skills haven’t waned, despite the challenges. Quite nice!

]]> 1c6d3daef23b33c1f5cc3694cc1406f4 Deborah Kelly wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=30395 Mon, 30 Nov 2020 10:00:40 -0500 “Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.”
—Augustine of Hippo
There is a lot to be angry about […]

]]> abd16b9835667c54990d587933ca7272 Deborah Kelly commented on the post, On Being Threatened with Hellfire in the Second Grade by Martha Woodroof https://streetlightmag.com/2020/10/19/martha-woodroof-blog-post-10-19-20/#comment-180012 Mon, 19 Oct 2020 11:51:15 -0400 Always look forward to Martha Woodroof’s wonderful essays and high-flying spirit. Much needed in these troubling times. Thanks for the shot of inspiration!

]]> 6c9e6dd3a024975be2b221d2112d1f3b Deborah Kelly commented on the post, Time for Change: Juneteenth Photos by Mark Atkinson https://streetlightmag.com/2020/07/13/time-for-change-juneteenth-photos-by-mark-atkinson/#comment-152099 Mon, 13 Jul 2020 12:00:10 -0400 Incredible photos! Thank you.

]]> 26fdb7b60a4f72164f225377fb67fa15 Deborah Kelly wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=28713 Mon, 22 Jun 2020 11:00:27 -0400 Much has been going on in the blogger’s back-of-the-blog life, compounded with news of the nation. And frankly, I have been mulling for well over a week on how to say what I want to say; or how to say anything, f […]

]]> c9513dc96246a7600ccb2ac2985440f0 Deborah Kelly commented on the post, A Plague Tale by Trudy Hale https://streetlightmag.com/2020/05/11/a-plague-tale-by-trudy-hale/#comment-133711 Tue, 12 May 2020 17:22:48 -0400 This is wonderful! Can’t wait to read your memoir.

]]> 31582803ebbad4bafe6873871b1bfc34 Deborah Kelly wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=27890 Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:00:15 -0500 Have you heard what dying people are said to regret? Working too much. Spending too little time with family and friends. Not speaking up when someone is out of line. Postponing joy. These are real regrets. I know […]

]]> b56dcc2834b5577abdefe180a01bbf0b Deborah Kelly commented on the post, Butter, Bread, Beethoven: I Remember My Father by Cora Schenberg https://streetlightmag.com/2018/01/19/butter-bread-beethoven-i-remember-by-father-by-cora-schenberg-winter-2018/#comment-97864 Mon, 18 Nov 2019 14:20:48 -0500 This is such a beautiful, touching remembrance of a most wonderful father and man. A terrible loss, but what a gift his life was. Hope you finish that memoir!

]]> aced7f0803f2cb5a8c6733fca8b3e245 Deborah Kelly wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=27286 Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:00:47 -0500 Sara Maitland’s A Book of Silence. James Ragan’s Too Long a Solitude. Jane Brox’s Silence: A Social History. Thomas Merton’s Thoughts in Solitude…

Is it just a coincidence, or did I subconsciously start r […]

]]> 202f2672ca7241413678182e16de9138 Deborah Kelly commented on the post, Guarantees by Elizabeth Meade Howard https://streetlightmag.com/2019/09/09/guarantees-by-elizabeth-howard/#comment-85447 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 20:57:27 -0400 Beautifully written, Elizabeth.

]]> fcc549179abb1126de6a1e91aba9d1e7 Deborah Kelly wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=26365 Mon, 02 Sep 2019 12:00:50 -0400 There are days I wake up in sluggish wonder, newly aware, as a last dream image drifts away, of the marvel of my beloved still beside me in the bed, the fan beating time through the air, and the persistence of […]

]]> 38715d48eb594823b18fc87a179b9b4b Deborah Kelly wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=26227 Mon, 29 Jul 2019 12:00:55 -0400 It seemed to me to have been a long time since I devoted serious focus to my creative work—I mean in terms of organizing, keeping track, revising, submitting to journals, compiling a draft manuscript of newer w […]

]]> 2297837cdb23023b7921e79a35c2f73e Deborah Kelly wrote a new post https://streetlightmag.com/?p=25411 Mon, 01 Apr 2019 11:06:42 -0400 Writing Small When There Is No Time to Write Big: The Goldilocks Approach to Getting Writing Done
I was back from the James River Writers Conference in Richmond when I realized I was dealing with an uncomfortable […]

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