Deborah Kelly:
CLASS OF 1975
Marshall University High SchoolClass of 1975
Minneapolis, MN
Deborah's Story
I've lived in Chicago since 1979, having moved here a year after marrying an Amnesty Intl. intern who soon after became a big-firm corporate lawyer. With three kids from that marriage, I went back to school, at Northwestern University, and finished a degree in Communication Studies, worked as a development director, writer and editor for two universities, a health care system, and a host of free-lance clients. Following the predictable divorce, I learned to salsa dance fell in love and married again. Swept up in the hormone rush of love, I had one more child, who we raised as the older kids were making their ways through the teen years. I tore down my shingle and, after teaching for a year, retired from balancing all this. Instead, I began running marathons. I graduated to trail ultra-marathoning a couple ...Expand for more
of years ago, a decision that has taken me to some beautiful mountains and canyons, and forests. Meantime, I got my coaching certification and coached a kids' running team for a couple of years. Now, with my last child in middle school, and several months off of running for health repairs, I'm back to running and to writing. My favorite place to be is Boulder, Colorado. Typically, I spend about a month there every summer, to run, hike, read, write, and see friends. I belong to a Zen sangha in Chicago and go on retreat at a zendo in the southwest for a couple of weeks in the summer as well. Other than canvassing for Obama, I've not been politically active, but that could easily change....get out there and vote!
2014:
Now living happily in Denver, Colorado. All offspring raised to adulthood (more or less).
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