Kelli KirkShattered ThundereggMy perfect agate shattered with a sharp plink on an unseasonably hot October day. I’d been reaching up to a high shelf and knocked a…5 min read·Jan 28, 2021----
Kelli KirkWednesday DinnerOn a miserable and drizzly November evening nine years ago, I sat down to a bowl of pasta with my ex-husband. The streetlights had stayed…5 min read·Nov 27, 2019----
Kelli KirkCasual Car Conversation between a white Mom, and her 12 year old son, who is African American:Him: “Mom, guess what? We saw the Po-Po down in Columbia City today.”5 min read·Dec 4, 2017----
Kelli KirkPenny Dreadful HalloweenHere is a little black cat story, more serendipitous than scary, about our small cat Penny Dreadful.3 min read·Oct 31, 2017----
Kelli KirkMy Evening with Gregory PeckOriginally published in Open Salon 20126 min read·May 2, 2017----
Kelli KirkGoogling Someone to Exhume my Dog(originally published on Open Salon in 2010)6 min read·Apr 28, 2017----
Kelli KirkGlenn Smalley Died on the FloorGlen Smalley died on the bedroom floor of a Kansas farm house on the fifth of December, 1918. It was a historically mild and dry Kansas…6 min read·Nov 7, 2016----
Kelli KirkWhen the Music ReturnedOn the day the music returned, I drove myself to work as usual, steering my car into the seedy wasteland underneath the Alaskan Way Viaduct…6 min read·Apr 24, 2015----
Kelli KirkTogether in the middle of the circle of the skyJust post dawn in the burgeoning light my twelve year old daughter and I climbed the winding road up through the Koke’e mountains as our…8 min read·Apr 16, 2015----
