KellyAMarks

Cooler days, colorful leaves, cups of warm coffee. The list of things I love about autumn goes on and on, and while part of me is really...

Through an odd set of circumstances this week, I was introduced to a man I would normally never meet. He’s an older gentleman with a...

Yesterday afternoon I went to the garden and picked the last beans of summer from the vines. There was only a handful. Soon the plants...

I had a complicated relationship with my mother-in-law as did most people. She was a complicated person. But one piece of advice she...

I wish I could tell you that today I want to focus on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche or discuss a movie like Citizen Kane maybe...

There’s a concept in improv, a rule if you will, in an art where there are very few rules - it’s called YES, AND. It’s becoming more...

Yesterday I was thinking about my recent beach trip with my friend as I added the latest additions to my shell collection. It brought to...

Sitting on our mats in the cool morning air, pausing for a moment before moving into our first downward facing dog of the morning, we...

Has an event or an occurrence ever had you completely and perfectly divided about how you felt about it? There is no leaning one...

At the church I attend, the children talk about “God Sightings,” times when they see signs of God during their everyday life. It started...

In 1973, four employees at a bank in Stockholm, Sweden, were held hostage for 6 days following a botched robbery. The hostages bonded...

The Sound of Music is undoubtedly one of the best movies ever made and my mom’s very favorite. I don’t know how many times she’s seen it...

One day this past week I was searching the hard drive of my computer for some information, and I came across a short video clip from back...

I remember freshman year at college, sitting in my first philosophy class. The professor was utterly granola from his ponytail all the...

The Messy Middle. That’s what a very talented artist-friend of mine calls it. She explained that you start a painting with an idea in...

“Home” is probably one of the most potent words in the English language. Webster’s defines it as a place where one resides, but it is so...

The playwright George Bernard Shaw said “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing”. And Plato is...

I’ve been wanting to tell you this for a long time, but the words wouldn’t come. Or maybe too many words were clamoring around my head...

I am a student at Yale. Well, I mean, I took a class at Yale! I feel like I should stop there. That’s by far the most impressive...

Years ago when houses were constructed, a metal rod was attached to the roof. The lightning rod. The basic explanation given was that...