Shelly Henley Kelly is a wife, mom, and native Texan. She experienced a renewed interest in her faith after receiving an invitation to teach her oldest child’s 3rd grade CCE.
Since then she’s served as a Catechist at the elementary, middle, and high school level and is involved in both Confirmation and ACTS retreats.
Shelly enjoys reading, genealogy, oral history and helping families document their personal history. When not working, Shelly can be found keeping the scorebook at her son’s baseball games or hiding with a good book in between games.
Shelly is a CatholicMom Contributor and appears as a guest on several SQPN podcasts. She was a regular with her sister on The Secrets of Once Upon a Time at SQPN.
Publications include the award-winning Through a Night of Horrors: Voices from the 1900 Galveston Storm (TAMU Press, 2000) and as a contributor to Word by Word: Slowing Down with the Hail Mary (Ave Maria Press, 2015)
Featured Posts by Shelly:
- Family
- Catholicism
- New Media
- Catechesis
- Book and Product Review
Turn Summer Travel into a Pilgrimage
For many families, summer is a time to travel. In our family, the destination is often determined...
Marriage Gifts: Wonder and Awe
Recognizing the Holy Spirit delivering a special marriage gift of Wonder and Awe on our 23rd wedding anniversary.
Making a Mess and Being Foolish: The New Evangelization
Messy and Foolish - a quick read but a long study in how to Evangelize the world.
Marriage Gifts
My husband and I celebrated 26 years of marriage last year. We’ve actually passed the point where...
My Favorite Books of 2021
New Year’s Day 2022 propelled Goodreads beyond their server limits as over five million existing users reviewed last year’s reading challenge and new users signed up to join them in setting new reading goals.
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For many families, summer is a time to travel. In our family, the destination is often determined...