When Her Birthday Comes Tomorrow (the 13th) is my birthday. My 48th birthday, to be exact. Today marks three years since I sat in the orange leather chair in the living room of our sweet little cottage in Shreveport and listened to my (now) ex-husband enumerate the many ways he felt I had failed…

It Runs in the Family (Trigger warning: Vegans, beware. Lots of, uh, shall we say, "farm-to-table"-type meat talk ahead.) The lack of a very specific type of impulse control, it would seem, runs in my family. Because we're not all genetically related to one another (my mother, for example, has no…

Home Alone I'm bad at titles, OK? Just ask any editor I've ever had. In this writer's humble opinion, thinking up catchy titles should be in someone else's job description. You want me to birth the baby AND give it a name? Has no one except me heard of delegating responsibilities? My therapist…

Squared Away Getting a blog post out this week has been hard. Charlotte and her daughter move next week, and I start a new part-time job (!) two days before they do. Add in a full schedule of classes and life in 2025 (Jesus, just this WEEK), and I have been struck with the worst anxiety I've had…

Memento mori Lately, I've been contemplating why, exactly, it's so important to me to live in New Orleans. Unfortunately, this is something I've had to give a lot of thought lately. The federal attack on transgender rights, along with those in the legislatures of Louisiana, Texas, and just about…

The Board When I was younger, before I met my kids' father, I dreamed of - was sort of obsessed with, really - finding The Great Love of My Life. As a lonely, bookish teenager, I devoured love stories. They weren't just romance novels, although, as a voracious reader at the mercy of my rural…

La Tricoteuse Neither the threat of a looming recession nor monthly economic blackouts can keep a real clothes horse down, so, at the start of Mardi Gras Break, I committed to doing less doomscrolling and more sewing. In addition to keeping my wardrobe nice and full, sewing calms my mind in a way…

On Perspective A few days ago, Charlotte came across this quote by Toni Morrison and sent it to me. Authoritarian regimes, dictators, despots are often, but not always, fools. But none is foolish enough to give perceptive, dissident writers free range to publish their judgments or follow their…

The Cure The past couple of weeks have tested my ability to manage my course load, writing, working (or trying to), my contributions to The Resistance, my commitment to overdressing, cultivating community/a social life, and, most importantly, being a mom. There's obviously the challenge of being…

Spare Parts Let me preface this: I'm not saying anything supernatural is happening here, but I'm not not saying that, either. But when I wish for things, sometimes the Universe cranks it up to 11. For instance, I feel mildly responsible for the current state of....…

New blog post, and she’s a spicy one. writekellywrite.com/2025/02/06/e...

Excellence Your grammy, your aunty, your momma, your mammyI'll take those flannel zebra jammies, secondhand, and rock that motherfuckerThe built-in onesie with the socks on that motherfuckerI hit the party and they stop in that motherfuckerThey be like, "Oh that Gucci, that's hella tight"I'm like,…

Much-needed distraction, hot off the keyboard. writekellywrite.com/2025/01/28/l...

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