Kellie : Contributor

Role Call: Married Mama, Two Children: A & T, Career Mama, Writer, Fitness Nut
Southern-girl-turned Rhode Islander, Kellie pretends to balance a full-time writing job, family, 5:00 AM fitness, fast 5Ks, friends, and the not-you-mother's book club she launched seven years ago. She can chat with the best of em about the many nuances of fine Kentucky bourbons, the out-of-print Frank Norris novel 'Vandover' and 'The Brute', Jimmy Carter, Goo Goo Clusters, Goodfellas, and the poem 'Onion' by the Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska, who wrote, "For us it's unattainable, the idiotism of perfection". Kellie is a self-professed" Type A personality who lives in a Type B reality".

Mom Musings: “This is where you live, Sweetpea.”
During a recent early-morning jog, I crested the Memorial Drive hill to make my turn down Cliff Walk and I purposefully took notice of the rising sun to my left. I say “purposefully” because I really wouldn’t have noticed the …
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Tuesday’s Talk: Insomnia Be Gone!
Anyone who ever has experienced temporary insomnia knows it’s not pretty. And the label “insomniac” sounds just as awful as the condition itself. Besides the under-eye bags that for sure would get that extra-weight fee, there are many, many signs …
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Mondays w/Mom: The Newport Bridge Run
Barbaric bursts atop the Newport Bridge It’s been a week since the Newport Bridge Run. Windy, chilly days have returned. Morning commuters are hightailing it through the tolls. Our quads, calves, and glutes are (somewhat) back to normal. And we’ve …
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Mondays w/Mom: A Literal Meaning
My five-year-old son, T., has an ever-growing and ever-present collection of stuffed animals. “Stuffies,” he calls them. Some speak their own language to each other while T. performs his own version of ventriloquism; others quack, roar, gurgle, chirp, giggle, croon, …
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Mondays With Mom: Revving Up The Laundry Basket Trick
A HIGH NOON SHOWDOWN I’m no statistician or gambling girl, but I’m willing to bet exorbitant sums that 99.9 percent of us secretly-exasperated wives/mothers have executed some version of the laundry basket trick. You know the trick: you place that …
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Mondays with Mom
Ahhh…summer… Is it time yet for us southern New Englanders to emerge from winter’s discontent? Regardless of our chilly, rainy, and just plain dank days…yes, it is! Good riddance, bad blahs. Whether you grew up here or landed on this …
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