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About Me

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My Interests

God, my neighbor, myself and everything that flows in between.

I'd like to meet:

people... in person.

Music:

miles davis, ella fitzgerald, bill withers, india arie, amel larrieux, cinematic underground, nat king cole, over the rhine, nichole nordeman, sade, eva cassidy, peter gabriel, bob dylan, robert johnson, chili peppers, sublime, ray lamontagne, beatles, melissa myers, watermark, U2, imogen heap, don henley, michael jackson, david gray, damien rice, sufjan, jeff buckley, REM, radiohead, antony and the johnsons, keith greeeeen, nickel the smashing pumpkins, cranberries, boys II men, ingrid michaelson, chopin, mendelssohn, debussy, DMB, fiona apple, nickel creek, stevie wonder-ous, lucky fonz III, michael bolton, donny hathaway, and my own attempts to create.

Movies:

Edward Scissorhands, Little Miss Sunshine, Crash, Reality Bites, Camp Cucamonga, The Wizard of Oz, Elf, The Painted Veil, Cinderella, Finding Neverland, I'll Do Anything, Serendipity, Momento

Television:

CNN and dutch soap operas

Books:

the giving tree, blue like jazz, a mind for god, true spirituality, mere christianity, night, shattered dreams, everyone poops

Heroes:

you mean, gyros?

My Blog

"not-so-good-body"

I contemplated long and hard a title for this blog. Maybe my stories are laced with a comprehensive theme? Well as I'm contemplating, Gabriella comes in after coming home from seeing the new Anubis fi...
Posted by Smelley on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:01:00 PST

transportation gods?

Yesterday the transportation gods were active to distract or depress me. On the way to school with the girls Herman broke down practically in the middle of the busy street. Gab and Greetje v...
Posted by Smelley on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:42:00 PST

Au Pair-ently Blogging Again

My new life in the Netherworld bids I write. Read the tale and see the pictures which depict the story of an American woman in Den Haag. BLOG! BLOG! BLOG! ...
Posted by Smelley on Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:10:00 PST

L’abri 2008

I'm back in the blogging business. If you have any interest in L'abri or why I went back check out my blogspot: www.kelleykolsch.blogspot.com
Posted by Smelley on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:21:00 PST

Europe Blog

keep up with me in europe. http://www.kelleykolsch.blogspot.com/
Posted by Smelley on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:13:00 PST

thoughts about jobs: it's not you, it's me

after the mass lay-off at work last week a co-worker compared his "elimination" to the classic "it's not you, it's me" break-up talk in a dating relationship. my boss (who was also "eliminated") disco...
Posted by Smelley on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 10:47:00 PST

i've got issues

today i was perusing through some original poems i have collected over the years. some i write with intense thought while others just roll off my pen. this particular one i wrote several mon...
Posted by Smelley on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:28:00 PST

Mom was right about bikinis

Those of you who have known me for a long time know that I was raised by a pretty conservative mother. One of the rules that I hated obeying (other than no MTV and no saying "fart, hump or crap"...
Posted by Smelley on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:42:00 PST

i had a dream about you, nashville

I was sitting in an artsy, dimly lit cafe/bar with all of my roommates, my closest nashville friends and acquaintences. We were deeply entertained by some musical act on stage. Just a folk singer...
Posted by Smelley on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:47:00 PST

so i think i'll fill you in on my future plans...

so i've been in nashville about 7 months now, and i love it. i genuinely love life here, and see the potential for this love to abound. which makes it's so sad to leave, yet dangerous to stay. my visi...
Posted by Smelley on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:17:00 PST