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Julie Keller
“Everything you can imagine is real.” Pablo Picasso
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Open A Door...
A few days ago I thought for awhile, sitting on my couch with the brick of cheese and a bag of chips, Gilmore Girls on Netflix. Perhaps...
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Nov 29, 20233 min read
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A Fairy Tale: Chapter Two...
The day is sunny, birds sing outside. Trouble seems far, even impossible today. But I must sit down to write Chapter Two, because there...
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Jul 30, 20234 min read
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My Fairy Tale...
Every evening I look into my back yard, with the raccoons and bunnies and possums dancing in the dusky light. And I whisper... ...they...
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Jul 14, 20236 min read
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Out A Window...
Looking to my chest I see surgical tape has fallen from where my chemo port was removed a few weeks ago. A tiny scar to memorialize a...
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Jun 24, 20234 min read
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A Good Goodbye...
Dear Chemo Port, A few days ago you left me, thank God and the angels, my doctors and healers too. Like my tumor and my leg, I'm not...
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May 29, 20233 min read
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I Would Tell Her...
Photos pop up on our phones, randomly generated by some app or another, evoking memories at all hours of our days. Sometimes we are...
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May 1, 20235 min read
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Making a List...
It's a different way to live a life, this way that I got tossed into, 90-day-chunks-at-a-time. Looking ahead to the next check, always. ...
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Apr 19, 20235 min read
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She Is Beauty...
She is beautiful.... ...I sighed to myself. In that shop, twenty years ago. And then I might have glanced away from her and down to my...
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Apr 12, 20234 min read
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My Fancy Leg...
The technician came out holding my new leg cover. A pretty champagne color, lovely etchings to boot. I exclaimed an ooooh...she replied...
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Mar 29, 20233 min read
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When We Miss...
I awoke in the night, as we do sometimes. We wake and we stir, shaken looser, more careless. Thoughts flirt with us then, take us to...
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Mar 17, 20233 min read
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What is Our...
...response? Every single day, we have the opportunity to respond. To one another, to a circumstance, to a miracle even. The night was...
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Mar 2, 20233 min read
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Another Plank Challenge...
It has been cold, too cold. It has been grey, too grey. Snow banks as tall as me, my body sluggish, taking penguin steps on ice, near...
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Feb 28, 20233 min read
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Hope is a Thing...
My son's words hang in the air, as he describes me to someone: ...my mom is a really positive person. And my mind wanders, because I...
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Jan 30, 20233 min read
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To Penny, With Love...
Thoughts spill, stories swirl, every minute. Right? And there are some stories that won't leave us for awhile, until they've stayed...
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Jan 24, 20234 min read
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Those Sticky Words...
We all have them, whether we quite remember or not. Words spoken to us when we were children. And some of these words are difficult, so...
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Jan 3, 20234 min read
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Happy (Nearly) New Year...
Some lessons circle round us, catching us often. This is one for me. And it begins here... ...I look at the clock, then back to Twitter....
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Dec 17, 20223 min read
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A Grandmother's Gift...
She whispered... ...this one, Daddy. I love this one. And she watched the clerk wrap the small bottle brush wreath in tissue paper. ...
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Dec 8, 20223 min read
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The Right Path...
Last week I sat in a parking lot after dark. I wanted to go into my favorite thrift shop. Find something fun and cheery, a distracting...
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Nov 29, 20224 min read
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A Few Words...
I climb the stairs at my fitness center, guiding a cane too. One step, two step, three...someone is behind me. I sigh and suppose they...
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Nov 19, 20222 min read
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She is Me...
Eyes close and words appear. A quote by T.S. Eliot, framed on a wall in my childhood home, "We shall not cease from exploration, and the...
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Nov 13, 20223 min read
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