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)