Everybody has to rest sometime, and we've been asking
a lot of our friends of late. So we were not suprised
this week when Kelley wrote and said she would be out
of town with her family.
But we have many new readers, and we hardly expect them
to go rummaging through the attic of our archives, looking
for this or that. There's just too many other things on
the web to see.
Kelley's written a lot for the Journal, and the first few
Weekly Warp columns she did were so popular, we
asked her to continue them. But in doing so, we lost
something else, the kinds of things you see listed below.
Kelley's contribution to our publication has not just been
the Warp, or a bunch of files over the last year. It has
been her perspective, one that is always thoughtful and
well-written. But she's given us something more. She
has taught us something about women.
On the anniversary of women's sufferage, she gave us
A Legacy of Choice,
an eye-opening account of how the final votes for
the women's enfranchisement came down to a mother
and a son.
In local issues, she's given us stories like
City Dwellers
which put a human face on local folks trying to
improve housing conditions in our city. (Last week,
we got a note from someone in Kansas City asking how
that all turned out. Seems they have a similar situation
out there).
But it's not all news with Kelley. She thinks about
lots of things, and takes pictures, too. Her
A Samhain Dream
is an image of another dimension, and one of our
other favorites is
Moonflower which
shows her considerable skill as a photographer and
as a gardener.
Her photography is a treat in another article,
To Her Beloved Ireland,
where she takes us along with her and her mother to
Ireland in search of family roots.
Finally, since this winter seems determined to hang
on until July, we suggest you take a look at
Wildflowers.
It might warm you up a bit.
Guess we shouldn't mind so much, really, if she's
decided to take some time off. She's earned it.
March 10, 1996 Charles Paparella The Shore Journal
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