Welcome to a Month-Without-Makeup Blog!  I’m very happy you found me here. My name is Maria Felicia Kelley. You can call me Maria, Maria Felicia, MFK–whatever works. If you’re curious about my blog’s name, here’s the backstory:  It all began with a primal urge to reconnect with who I’ve felt myself to be since a child, at my core–a writer:  As an at-home mom to three sons, I’d left my career years ago.  My marriage quickly followed and so did a first son–ten months after my wedding day. I’d been single for so long, it was weird to have each event, commencing with meeting my husband in Madrid, Spain (an interesting story for another post on another day) tick off like clockwork: a long-distance courtship with weekend meetings in Scottsdale; an engagement five months later occurring on Valentine’s Day (very romantic); a June wedding (classic); and a March, first birth (joyous). It was easy to get used to life being planned out systematically to complement the lifestyle of my very systematic patent attorney husband.