Kelly Salasin

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  • Philly, Foreign & Familiar

    Kelly Salasin In the span of one season, this unlikely sports fan is back in the stands at another professional baseball game– this time in Philadelphia. Two decades in New England has made this mid-Atlantic city a stranger to me.   From parking-lot tailgaters to street cops to peddlers, the faces and attitudes in Philly…

  • The Precious Power of Tears

    “The cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you don’t have both, you don’t know yourself.” Rumi kelly salasin I feel drawn to write about the power of tears–though I am an unlikely candidate.  I can count the times I’ve cried in the past thirty years.   And yet perhaps…