By Chuck Keller Bored? Need something to do? Want to be amazed? Possibly win a prize? Then the Great Creature Hunt Photo Contest is for you. The backyards of Fort Thomas are filled with so many creatures that we often overlook. The Fort Thomas Forest Conservancy wants you to take notice of all of the […]
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In Other Words: Walking Daily Through the Ghosts of Our Past (And There’s an App For That)
Dixie Place steps. By Chuck Keller One day an elderly man knocked on my door. He inquired if the little house next door was occupied. He knocked several times. The house was vacant at the time. He told me was married there and wanted to visit. He was alone. His wife had passed and he […]
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In Other Words: It’s Through the Crack the Light Enters
Nick and Amanda. Courtesy: Nick Fite By Chuck Keller The family story goes like this. Grandpa had a drinking problem. He went out one day and never returned. Grandparents divorced. Life moved on. My father eventually found his father – living in a flop house near the slaughterhouse. It was hot, cheap, and smelly. Dad […]
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In Other Words: Let Us Praise the Front Porch
Margie Reinert Hegge’s front porch: Courtesy Margie Reinert Hegge By Chuck Keller I admit that I do not like the newer soulless tract homes that don’t have a proper front porch. You know the kind where you’re usually greeted by a double car garage door and the front door is off center and appears small […]
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In Other Words: We Are Better Together Than Apart
Ella Barnes. Courtesy: Rudy Garns By Chuck Keller Before Highlands High School had air conditioning and smart boards and computers it had strict dress codes and really hot classrooms. Really hot. In the late 1980s, a group of boys wanted to wear shorts to school to be more comfortable but the dress code did not […]
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In Other Words: We Can Get Through Anything – Together
Jamie and Jonathan Rausch. Courtesy Jamie Rausch By Chuck Keller Being pregnant and getting sick is fairly common. What is not common is being pregnant and being sick with COVID-19. What’s even more unusual is being pregnant, having COVID-19, and being a cancer survivor. But that’s exactly what happened to Jamie Baker Rausch. Jamie is […]
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In Other Words: “In These Uncertain Times” is All Time
In literature, as in life, nothing happens suddenly – you just weren’t paying attention. Think of the tragic ending in Of Mice and Men. The reader is unknowingly prepped for the violent and heartbreaking climax. The signs were there all along but most readers don’t pay attention to the signs but upon reflection the reader […]
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In Other Words: Suffering is Meant to Teach Us Something
By Chuck Keller One year ago (May 20, 2019) my life changed dramatically and forever. I underwent the CAR-T protocol to address the Diffused Large B Cell lymphoma that I had been fighting for a year and a half prior. I wrote about it here throughout the year. I’m not going to lie, it was […]
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In Other Words: What Are We Learning From This?
Unsplash: Pricella Du Preez By Chuck Keller So here we are. The honeymoon is over. Now we are settling in for the long haul. It seems like we’ve pretty much run out of novel things to do during our quarantine. We fall into new routines. As I sit in the comfort of my enclosed front […]
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In Other Words: Of Bees And The Ripple Effect
By Chuck Keller We have all made this observation. We don’t often stop to think about the consequences of our actions. We recently lost all of the bees in two hives. That’s about 25,000 bees. These were healthy happy hives and we expected to harvest honey this year. We lost a few years and hundreds […]
