Kelly Coveny

Nov

2024

One Word War

Acceptance, Change, Despair, Hope, Humor, identity crisis, resignation, Transformation

11 Nov 2024

Nouns annoy me. I want to kick them. Make them dance. Stand up for themselves. Demand they not just lie around like lazy bums. I live in a land of verbs. The more active the better. Doing beats being. Running trumps walking. Passive is painful. Surrender is the pre-curser to...

Oct

2024

The Hullabaloo About Hair

add, hair, Joy, Loss, Love, mental health, Parenting

Kelly Coveny

All

31 Oct 2024

It speaks volumes without us saying a word. Can start a conversation and shut it down. Provoke pride, prejudice, peace, and passion. With or without our permission. It reveals bold beauty and secrets we rather it didn’t. Shouts from the rooftop whether we want it to or not. Propels us...

May

2023

Five Caveats to Claiming Self-Identity

Individuality, LGBTQ, Love, Poetry, Self-identity

Kelly Coveny

All, Food for Thought Fridays

26 May 2023

ONE. My honky-tonk Jesus can hang on your antiseptic cross. Being human is not a binary proposition. Whitman said, “We contain multitudes.” Our cultural failing is white-washing complexity in the name of clarity. There’s a black Jesus that lives in Panama. Surely there are others. We can cling to the...

May

2023

Price of Admission

College, Confidence, Love, Parenting, Reunions

Kelly Coveny

All, Threedom Thursdays

11 May 2023

I did it. I broke my 30-year reunion boycott on a Sunday night ZOOM call. Our classmate Stacy facilitated. She did a brilliant job moving along the soliloquies of milestones and missteps. 23 women. 90 minutes of condensed and curated bios. The PG, PC versions. Reunions are built for extroverts’...

Dec

2020

Power of the preFIX

Fresh thinking, Imagination, Innovation, Joy

Kelly Coveny

All, Say 'IT' Saturdays

03 Dec 2020

What if the root of our problems is in how we begin? What if we decided to start the task, the moment, the conversation differently? To build anything beautifully alive and inspiring– be it a marriage, a childhood, a bouillabaisse or an ad campaign– it must begin with fresh eyes,...

Oct

2020

The Fireworks of ’24 Karat Magic’

Bio, Creativity, Culture, Education, Individuality

Kelly Coveny

All, Say 'IT' Saturdays

30 Oct 2020

Faded into the inevitable darkness of cultural compromise. Finn kicked off last Wednesday morning with a little Bruno Mars for drum practice. We were all shaking our groove thing till I noticed he had three minutes to ZOOM. He dashed off so as not to be late for at-home school....

Oct

2020

Feeding Our Appetite

Clues to Identity, Empowerment, Eve, Hunger, Identity, Jesus

Kelly Coveny

All, Say 'IT' Saturdays

20 Oct 2020

Instead of Our Fear It all began with Jesus. We went to Sunday school when I was little. Mostly, I remember snacks. Volunteer moms knew the bible would be easier to digest with treats. Graham crackers go a long way when you have to explain Cain murdering his brother or...

Oct

2020

The Great Migration

Confabulation, Grief, Light, Loss, Love, Shadow, Spirit

Kelly Coveny

All, Say 'IT' Saturdays

09 Oct 2020

Going Home This being human is a powerful paradox of terrible and beautiful proportion. We are spirits trapped in bodies. Earth-bound souls forever trying to fly. We marvel at the monarchs. Where they start, what they become, the magnificent distance they journey. They are not unlike us. In the two...

Oct

2020

Cha Cha Cha!!

Change, Collaboration, Dance, Happiness, Potential, Vulnerabiity

Kelly Coveny

All, Say 'IT' Saturdays

06 Oct 2020

Three Steps to Go Dance has a kind of mesmerizingly syncopated magic. Like a-bra-ca-da-bra but with red-ruffled, hip-swinging swagger. Life in the 21st century moves at a fast-paced rhythm. Some days, we thrive in it. Others, we barely survive it. The dream though… is that it makes us come alive. ...