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Let's get real about Mother's Day
As I headed out the door for a Mother's Day run, I breathed a grateful sigh listening to the first few lines of a StoryCorps podcast.
Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
May 15, 2017


One full year in the rearview
I'm not quite sure what's more awesome: that I've made it one full year past the end of my slog through cancer treatment. Or that this...
Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
Mar 3, 2017


This is what democracy looks like
"Where do I even start?" Scrawled in thick black marker on white poster board, those words really caught my eye amid thousands of signs...
Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
Jan 22, 2017


Thank you, Mr. President
Dear President Obama, In this last hour of your presidency, I’m overwhelmed with so many feelings. Big emotions. Good and bad. Some...
Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
Jan 20, 2017


You never really understand a person ...
No words in literature have ever resonated more profoundly with me than the advice Atticus Finch gave his daughter, Scout, in To Kill a...
Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
Jan 11, 2017


Introducing WRITE ON
With cancer in the rear view, it’s time to move on from CaringBridge and introduce you to my new blog. I'm calling it WRITE ON because...
Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
Dec 16, 2016


832 steps up the Space Needle, check!
I did it, folks. Climbed to the tippy top of the Space Needle this morning. My time: 10:22. Total donations from the generous souls who...
Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
Oct 3, 2016


My mighty fine mammogram
When I was first diagnosed and while I was slogging through treatment, I figured I'd dread my first several post-cancer mammograms. ...
Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
Sep 24, 2016


Climbing the Space Needle for cancer research
832 steps up the Space Needle. That's what I'm gonna climb on Oct. 2 in the Base2Space fundraiser for Fred Hutch. And to think that...
Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
Sep 11, 2016


My, what a difference a year makes
Many a time over the past few months, I've marveled at what a difference a year makes. Looking back, I can hardly believe how much has...
Liz Murtaugh Gillespie
Jul 30, 2016
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