Author Archives: Chuck Keller

As you know, Fort Thomas Matters is merging with River City News to form LINK NKY, a regional news outlet. As a result, this platform will redirect which means that I will not be sharing our stories and my observations on this platform any longer. So this is my farewell column.  Seven years ago Mark […]

Unsplash If you have watched the Ted Lasso series then you know that he posted a sign above the door to his office that says “Believe.” One word. And that one word drove everything he did for his team.  I bring that up because this is the time when so many make resolutions in hopes […]

Ever been told you think too much? Ever been told you don’t think enough? That’s the problem with thinking, how do you know when enough is enough? Here’s the problem with thinking — a thought is not real until you either say it or write it. Fortunately, Teri Foltz is there to guide us.  Foltz’s […]

By Chuck Keller  An illness can make life uncomfortable. But combine an illness, a pregnancy, hospitalized parents, three children, a major holiday, and possible family separation, well that’s a disruption of some magnitude. But it can also present something wonderful.   Christmas was coming and we three children were excited. We knew that we were getting […]

Let me say up front that I am left handed. My parents never tried to make me right handed — except once. I wanted a guitar but my predilection was to hold it like Jimi Hendrix. But my mother insisted that I hold it right handed. After quite a bit of struggle, I succeeded and […]

  We tend to dwell on bad news. It’s easy to do. There’s the old newspaper adage that if it bleeds, it leads. And that seems to apply to our personal lives as well. I am not sure what that reveals about human nature, and I’m willing to save that for another discussion, but we […]

On any autumn Sunday afternoon my grandfather would rake leaves into a pile and then burn them. Lots of people in the neighborhood burned leaves. Smoke would drift up and hang over the houses sending smoke signals about the coming of winter. It was a dangerous practice and I’m glad no one does this anymore.  […]

An early chemo session.   Today marks one year of clean scans for cancer. As many of you know, I have battled lymphoma for the past three years. I underwent almost a year of chemo, a CAR-T transplant, and targeted radiation. It was not pleasant. I was sick for a long time.  There was one […]