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Liz Murtaugh Gillespie

Let's get real about Mother's Day

As I headed out the door for a Mother's Day run, I breathed a deep and grateful sigh listening to the first few lines of a StoryCorps...

Liz Murtaugh Gillespie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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