me & my blog

I’m Molly Kelash, a 40-something writer, wife and mother. I live in South Minneapolis though I’m not from Minnesota, which sometimes makes me a foreigner in a foreign land. Despite that, I feel more at home in this easy-going, easy-to-live-in, progressive town than I have felt anywhere else I have lived — Oxford, England; Tokyo, Japan; Hong Kong; Washington, DC; Paris & Marseille, France; and San Francisco.

This blog isn’t going to blow Oprah away with it’s lessons in living life to the fullest, or living in the moment, or going to an ashram and eating pasta to find yourself. If that’s what you’re looking for, stop! Turn back! You will be disappointed.

But read on if you can bear a blog about holding onto parts of yourself and your dreams and your passions that are worth it while you try to hold onto and raise a family ~ and knowing it’s okay if you can’t get to them quite yet (the passions, I mean).

It’s about not really knowing who you are anymore, at least some of the time, but taking baby steps to figure it out.  It’s about expectations vs. reality, growing up and growing old, the metaphorical fear of flying and those moments we all have wondering how or why we actually made it through a certain day.

Sounds serious? It shouldn’t always be. Hopefully it will be about the ridiculous in the everyday, the theater of the absurd in which we fumble around blindly, only to find moments of clarity that make us laugh at ourselves and our predicaments. Sure, it’ll be about embracing talents and successes, but also about laughing at and learning from faults and mistakes, too.  Gotta be willing to go through the bad stuff  to get to the good stuff.

No, it probably won’t reveal great truths or help you find God or give you give you a flatter tummy. But it might make you cry or laugh for a moment because you’ll know you’re not the only one who’s felt that way.

Not a very clear roadmap for a nascent blog, and now that I’ve started it, I guess I have to keep it up.  Crap.  But flying by the seat of my pants is one of my talents  ~ or faults depending on how you look at it ~  so hop on and enjoy the ride.