So I admit to this deception – I make up dog breeds. Why? Well, a mutt needs a little dignity and this gives them a little instant heritage. I love dogs and I have a soft spot for mutts. The muttier the better. We had one dog, Buddy Einstein the Genius, who looked like he […]
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In Other Words: “Sorrow is the Child of Too Much Joy.”
Inside Out. Pixar. By Chuck Keller Perhaps you have seen the animated movie Inside Out, a wonderful story about personified emotions where sadness saves the day. You see, sorrow helps us feel compassion, to be human, to have perspective. Joy makes us giddy; sorrow makes us somber. And reflection makes us wiser. It reminded me […]
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In Other Words: Forget the Stuff
Chuck Keller. By Chuck Keller As a child, I was easy to motivate at Christmas. There was the payoff of swell gifts for being a reasonably well-behaved kid for a reasonably short period of time. I mean, does any kid ever think of Christmas consequences in July? I didn’t. But I made sure that if […]
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In Other Words: Venn Diagrams and Where We Are From
By Chuck Keller Okay. You meet someone for the first time. The questions are predictably the same. “What’s your name? What do you do? Where are you from?” And we answer them so easily because we are searching for some commonality. But that last question is worth examining because where we are from reveals much […]
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In Other Words: Growing old is not for sissies.
FTM file By Chuck Keller Living in an old house is a lot of work. Things are seldom flush, flat, square, or level. Something always needs fixing. The same thing goes for an aging body. And the same thing goes for an aging town. This is the second time that I went through a major […]
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In Other Words: Baby Steps to Deal With Failure
By Chuck Keller Don’t you love watching toddlers learn to walk? They wobble, their little knees don’t bend, their little feet slap the floor, their outstretched arms dance in the air, and their eyes are wide open. They are excited to learn a new skill. And when they fall on their padded bums, they laugh. […]
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In Other Words: A Vet Can Mend a Person Too (But Not How You Think)
By Chuck Keller Lydia Staggs left Fort Thomas to study marine biology. And now she is a vet at Gulf World Marine Shores but also works at a local veterinary clinic in town. She has rescued dolphins from hurricanes and mends puppies and kittens and birds. But this story is different from the “Guess what […]
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In Other Words: Tapping the Superhero Within
By Chuck Keller Via Youtube. Over the past year I have had periodic Batman sightings in Newport or in the parks along the river. It is always at night. He appears from the shadows and disappears as quickly. The last time I saw him was at a music festival along the river. He walked the […]
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In Other Words: To See a Sea of Possibilities
Lemual Ferguson holding one of his bowl. A window pane that he has created hangs behind him. By Chuck Keller Paleontologists and archeologists have discovered fossilized footprints of people that are over 100,000 years old. But think of all of the feet that have since trampled, danced, skipped, strolled, and kicked over the earth since […]
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In Other Words: There is Magic in the Rain
By Chuck Keller This story is not about adoption. Not about disabilities. Not about single parenting. It’s about magic. I like it when I talk with someone and I end up seeing the world differently afterwards. I have that just about every time I talk to Wynne Philippe who adopted a beautiful girl from China. […]
