Surly testudines, naked turkeys, and underwear eating cows in suburbia. And someone gets saved from the front seat of a burning car. All in a day's life of the Phelan clan. "Please tell me it's not a testudine!" 🐢

Kelly Phelan@kellyphelan.bsky.social · 2y ago

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…

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Kelly Phelan@kellyphelan.bsky.social · 2y ago

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…

Why New Orleans. It is a place like no other. #nolasky #nola #neworleans

Kelly Phelan@kellyphelan.bsky.social · 2y ago

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…

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 pa…

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

New Orleans, in The Bywater, blanketed in snow. A beautiful moment in this magical city. #NewOrleans, #sneaux, #Bywater, #BywaterBalery