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STARTING OVER ONE MORE TIME

Calling it a day and starting over after forty five years?
Not me, my wife’s business.
After five moves beginning in NW Portland and ending in Lake Oswego, delivering hundreds of babies, treating thousands of patients, the timing couldn’t be better.
We met at the start, teamed up for her business, and now it will be something else to team up on.
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HELPING OTHERS DO THEIR JOB?

Helping others has always been a trend.
We are remembered if we help others and you want to be remembered don’t you?
Remembered for more than your stunning good looks and colorful repartee?
Be helpful. But not too helpful. There is a standard, after all.
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MEMORIAL DAY WITH THE BOYS AT 19

Memorial Day is good time to remember what it is and who it’s for.
From Google AI:

 

The average age of war dead in World War I was approximately 26 to 27 years old, depending on the nation and the stage of the conflict.
While the average age hovered in the mid-to-late twenties, more 19-year-olds were killed than any other single age.

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BODY MOVEMENT? KEEP GOING

There’s one thing you learn when you start body movement: getting in shape hurts more than expected.
So does getting out of shape.
The difference?
One goes away, one doesn’t.
Then what?

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Time beginning, the MIDDLE, and end

Where is time beginning every day? Somewhere in England.
I was there during one of my drives through the English countryside in a tiny Vauxhall with my wife and two gigantic teenagers inside.
Did they enjoy their historical moments in the olde country, their strolls along legendary paths?
Yes, they did.

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CANCER MEMOIR FROM SMART GUY WITH HPV CANCER, AND IT’S NOT ME

  Michael D. Becker wrote his cancer memoir titled ‘A Walk With Purpose.’   By all accounts he’s lived a life with purpose, so the walking with purpose stuff is expected. He walks with purpose, so do you.   So do I. We all walk with purpose. If not we’re just wandering around aimless, without […]

WHAT PEOPLE NEED AND WHAT THEY DON’T SAY

What people need is a break from their trials.   An old joke goes like this: How do you catch a unique rabbit? You ‘nique up on it. How do you catch a tame rabbit? The tame way, you ‘nique up on it. It’s pretty funny if it’s the only joke of the week. More […]

CANCER TECHNOLOGY TO THE RESCUE

How far has cancer technology come? The machine in the picture delivers radiation therapy, radio therapy, prescribed by radiation oncologists. It looks like it belongs on the wing of a jet. Standing about six feet tall, five feet deep, it hooks into the patient related gear in the treatment room. I used to show up […]

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LOVE AFFAIRS OR LEARNING AFFAIRS

Do past love affairs affect the future? What happens between two people ought to be like Las Vegas: what happens there stays there. Except it never happens that way between two people, three or four people, or a whole team of people. No judgements, just call it a social agreement between adults who know how […]

Millennial History Break: WWII-era

    It’s been a long time since history delivered WWII. A long time to learn what happened, too.   But not all are interested in the lessons of WWII, particularly the death camps where those deemed undesirable by the German authorities were warehoused until further notice.   Further notice was death for six million […]

121212 And The Baby Boomer Soul

Mick Jagger’s no Baby Boomer.   Too old, just like the 78 million born between 1946-1964. He showed up in 1943.   This is what I heard from Mick Jagger, “We’re glad to be here, but you’ll have to do us the same favor if it rains in London.”   He gets it, but it’s […]

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Continental Divide: A Place Not An Attitude

  Since I was in the neighborhood I kept a look out for this sign: Continental Divide.   It goes one way or the other. Water follows the path of least resistance? That’s the story.   One side drains to the east, the other to the west. That’s lots of drainage and it starts with […]

Baby Boomer Travel, pt 1

Plan Ahead Or Suffer. Once you step out your front door the machinery kicks into gear. It’s either too late to change plans, or you don’t want to be the one changing. Be a good sport. Baby boomers know how to be good sports. We also know how to whine so don’t be alarmed when […]

PORTLAND’S FARM TRIP

How Far Away Is Portland’s Farm, Portland’s Midwest? Not Far At All. Do you ever imagine golden waves of grain while sweating it out in your hotbox apartment? You wait for a breeze to blow through the crops in your mind while heat mirages rise off the asphalt beach parking lot. Or you’re standing in […]

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