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Virginia Kelley
Sep 23, 20202 min read
Just Pumpkins, No Spice
I began painting at a nearby pumpkin farm over twenty years ago. At first, I was buoyed by the freedom of doing just as I pleased on a...
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Virginia Kelley
Sep 16, 20202 min read
Get it Down on Paper
At school, next to an oral report, getting assigned a long piece of writing gave me hives. This project, often comprising a third of the...
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Virginia Kelley
Aug 21, 20201 min read
Virtuous Simplicity
Living a simple life and getting by with fewer things is a new concept. Since retiring from corporate life, clothing has gradually...
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Virginia Kelley
Jul 31, 20202 min read
Princesses One and All
Sometimes I make a mental collage of all the friends I've had. I use a plethora of colors, weights and textures of paper with some...
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Virginia Kelley
Jul 23, 20201 min read
Kindness Rekindled
Great ideas come from everywhere, but they need to hit at a receptive moment to make an impact. In an issue of Reader's Digest, I read...
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Virginia Kelley
Jul 9, 20202 min read
How Sweet It is
This morning, wanting to beat the heat, we went to a drive-through window at a fast food place. Hubby placed my order, a lemonade with...
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Virginia Kelley
Jul 4, 20202 min read
American as Apple Pie
What does Independence Day mean to you? Is it the official beginning of summer, fireworks, hot dogs and potato salad? If, like a friend...
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Virginia Kelley
Jul 1, 20202 min read
Summertime Magic
For a few years, my high school sorority rented a cottage at Turkey Point, Ontario. While summer is epitomized by the Beach Boy's...
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Virginia Kelley
Jun 25, 20202 min read
Sunday Best
Call it what you will, event, party, festivity there are times when you simply have to gussy up and shine. Going shopping precedes the...
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Virginia Kelley
Jun 21, 20202 min read
Elephant Creek Park
After moving us here from Southern Illinois, daddy was eager to show us the sites. Niagara Falls, of course, was the prime draw, then...
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Virginia Kelley
Jun 18, 20202 min read
Nature at Hand
My daily activity of painting at the Riverwalk shows me a whole side of people enjoying unlimited free time, soaking up natural wonders....
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Virginia Kelley
Jun 15, 20201 min read
Rock Solid
Someone once said you never really see a thing until you draw it and that's true for me. Doing a thirty-day watercolor challenge has me...
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Virginia Kelley
Jun 14, 20202 min read
In a Class by Himself
The house reeked of mustard because Grandma Kelley had been summoned to make a mustard plaster for daddy's pleurisy. This was wrong, my...
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Virginia Kelley
Jun 11, 20202 min read
A Minute on the Lips
Summer arrives like a bang from a starter pistol. One day it's turtlenecks and fleece and the next the lightest cottons constrict and...
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Virginia Kelley
Jun 7, 20202 min read
Art Every Day
For the thirty days of June, for the second year, I am responding to an online invitation: 30X30 Direct Watercolor Challenge. It means...
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Virginia Kelley
Jun 4, 20202 min read
Hey There, Lonely Girl
Apartments. I've lived in twelve in my lifetime; in Long Island, Rhode Island, Oshkosh, Madison, Wisconsin and two temporary residences...
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Virginia Kelley
May 30, 20201 min read
Strengthening our Resolve
If you attended public school over the last fifty years, you said it hundreds of times. So much so that standing with hand over heart,...
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Virginia Kelley
May 26, 20201 min read
Ode to Home
Home represents security first and foremost and my husband and I are doing everything we can to keep it that way. We go out but, remain...
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Virginia Kelley
May 25, 20202 min read
Looking Back
Today it is only fitting that we honor those who have served in the armed forces. I was too young to know what war meant but, while I...
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