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LONG MARRIAGE, WITH AGREEMENT DEALS

If you are in a marriage, long or short, bride or groom, and it’s your first one, you are aware of certain deals, made aware of certain deals, from the start.
They begin with to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.
I’m finally getting it, I think I get it. Taking it from the top with a question popped.

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FINDING FAULT EVERYWHERE? BLAME SOCRATES

 

Finding fault with the quote, “The unexamined life is not worth living?”
You should.
Social media demands an examination of the unexamined life beginning in two weeks.
Or now.
Let’s start by examining Socrates. And his life.
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CHANGING FACES FOR CHANGING TIMES

Peace and friendship are the right ingredients for changing times and what goes better with it than a dangerous looking beard?
If you’ve never had one hanging off your face, if you’re a woman or a light shaver, a dangerous looking beard sends a message.
One beard message is, “This man is too busy thinking about important things, too important to waste time pulling a razor blade across their face.”
The other message:
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DANG GREEN ON OREGON FOOTBALL GAME DAY

Dang Green started strong for Oregon football on Saturday with six big boys left in the Safeway cooler.
All six in the cart? Check.
It felt like a good omen with three fans watching the game together from the same place.
I’ll do the math: Two each.
Wrapped in a game worn Oregon Duck shirt inherited from one of the biggest Duck fans ever, another good omen, the pre-game began to wind down.
The problem wasn’t the Dang Green or the three official plaid Duck shirts we all wore. It was worse:
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THE NORTH BEND OF COOS BAY

Who saw this messy map and thought, “That’s where I’m going?”
My parents, apparently.
This is where they raised their family.
I asked the old man, who had grown up in a logging company town, whose hometown was tougher, his or mine?
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IF YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT, LOOK WHERE FOOD COMES FROM

Small print shows where food comes from. Smaller print explains what food factories add to improve shelf life. You need good shelf life when you ship long distance. A three year expiration date on food might be something to skip for dinner. If you know people who identify as ‘foodies’ you’ve heard about the fresh […]

EXPERIENCE: HOW TO TELL ONE THING FROM ANOTHER

      1. Visual: one is different than the rest.   2. Material: one is man made.   3. Use: one is decorative.   4. Location: chickens are world wide.

HEALTHCARE COSTS, INSURANCE MISTAKES

    Did anyone notice a senate vote on healthcare costs from insurance mistakes? It happens everyday across America. Has it happened to you? On a regular basis throughout my healthcare adventure with HPV16 throat cancer I’ve been billed by mistake. Take yesterday for example.

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Dylan Song For 2018 Mid-Term Elections

Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don’t stand in the doorway Don’t block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There’s a battle outside And it is ragin’. It’ll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin’.  

1947 – The Highlights Of Baby Boomer Year #2

PART 2 OF A CONTINUING SERIES Reality TV is born. Early television finds its mark broadcasting events in the U.S. Congress for the first time, then the World Series. The complaint, “Man, there’s nothing good on TV,” was first heard. Voice of America. Eastern Europe and the old USSR begin tuning into the broadcasts of […]

A BOOMER FAMILY TREE GROWS CLOSE TO TOWN

 BUT NOT TOO CLOSE. When people say it’s best to live close to the land, what do they mean? Call it the rural side of life. The closer the better. It’s a perspective fewer and fewer are blessed with. Country living shows you the cycles of life, the cycle of many lives, like a live […]

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LOVE IN THE TIME OF TACOMA

One sure measure of a city on the way up is the people who move there. When the smart crowd shows up, things change. Of course it takes more than intelligence. It also takes commitment and patience. Combine intelligence, commitment, and patience in newly weds who choose to make Tacoma their home, and the fuse […]

DEPORTED IN PORTLAND: MEDICAL TOURISM VIA TIGARD AND BEAVERTON

If you need to be tough, but are a secret wussy man, bring the right back up. I brought Jason Witten to get deported in Portland. Not too many tougher than that. Together we deported in Portland; both of us on just this side of crazy celebration, yet calm.

PORTLAND’S BOOMER CASTLE ON BROADWAY

You don’t have to go to France to feel the grandeur of a beautiful room. Or a cathedral in Spain for the ornate. Walk into the Benson Hotel on Broadway for the same feeling of WOW. The size is different, but the details are wonderful. For an Old World taste in the New World, this […]

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