Home Life Archives - Colleen Kelly Mellor: I Write of Heroes

April 25, 2022

“Think Your Parents Were Tough?”

“Memories of a Milltown Girl” “Think Your Parents Were Tough?” Think again… The lives of kids of a town principal and the town’s ministers are equally challenging. Since the parents are expected to set a high standard for the community, their kids are expected to be the embodiment of that standard. Water balloons out the […]

January 5, 2022

“Alone..So So Alone”

Alone…So So Alone… The holidays are always tough for me (and for many others with whom I sympathize). When my second husband died, on New Year’s Day, 1986, it was as if I sat in a minefield, smoke clearing all about… stunned I was still alive. It had been a terrible two years….two years that […]

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August 26, 2020

Why Did We Return to RI, After Living in the South?

They (the naysayers, that is) can say what they wish about Rhode Island but we who have traveled and lived elsewhere know our little state is where we want to be…for perpetuity (my ashes will be tossed—elegantly, I hope, off Rhode Island waters, while he’ll be ceremoniously interred in Veterans’ Cemetery.) For many years, we’ve […]

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April 28, 2018

Boomerrrang: Book/Guest Speaking Reviews Coming In

Caleb Woodhouse,from Rhode Island, writes: “Boomerrrang! What a great read. I am all admiration for your knowledge, your readiness to learn, your resourcefulness, and your great spunk…There’s loads of wisdom for me to gather about moving (if ever I should try), but I assure you I’ll not be a do-it-yourselfer. ***I appreciate his appreciation of […]

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