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THE JOHN ROSSI PODCAST FROM MT. ANGEL

I drove down to Mt. Angel for the John Rossi Podcast yesterday.
It began in Lou’s Kitchen.
After watching video John posts on facebook from Lou’s, along with shots of food, I got excited to go.
The reuben sandwich was especially enticing, so that’s what I got.
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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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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 […]

AMERICAN CTE: FOOTBALL AND DRIVING

The last thing good baby boomer helicopter parents wanted was their precious getting his brain rattled loose. But they have friends, friends with dads who coach youth football. “I hear your boy’s a good kicker. He want to play some ball?” And he’s on the team, from sixth grade kicker to pulling guard on a […]

CARE COACHING TIPS

When It Comes Down To Just You, Care Coaching Makes A Winner. Have you visited a loved one in a nursing home and looked around? What did you see going on in there? How do so many people arrive at this particular destination? Most people have a patented answer: “People need the best care available […]

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CHARLES BRONSON GUNS

A movie star for decades, Charles Bronson doesn’t get much run today. He was a star with guns from Death Wish back to the Dirty Dozen and Magnificent Seven. His best gun move came from Hard Times where he played a bare knuckle fighter collecting his fight purse. He drove out into the country, walked […]

BOOMERPDX ARCHIVE, c. 1983

1-10-83 (Monday) A former Oregon governor died last Saturday. Tom McCall breathed his last in the hospital up the street. Good Samaritan. A student nurse in my building cared for him at the end. She said he’s a great guy. Everyone says it. He seems like someone you’d like to know. Oregon history’s Tom Vaughan […]

MOTORCYCLE HOODLUM GRANDPA, EARLY WWII ANGEL

  One enchanted evening the man on the hog met a woman at a USO dance. He saw her across a crowded room. They married just before he shipped out to the Pacific Theater of Operations, PTO.   Score for a motorcycle hoodlum, but he was the least motorcycle hoodlum on the road.   He […]

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HISTORY ROAD CHALLENGES FROM BOOMERPDX

The current state of history road challenges. Westies, people living beyond the Mississippi, and beyond the Great Divide in the Rockies, live with problems of modern America, along with the rash of chain stores you can’t escape. If a town like Staunton, Virginia, like most towns in Virginia, have centuries of history behind them, why […]

MESA ARIZONA, CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE

Where are you right now? Do you wish you were somewhere else? Instead of working on the wish list of where you’d rather be, take a good look around. You may be in the center of the universe, like Mesa Arizona.

NEW YORK CITY 1980: HOW TO QUIT A GREAT TOWN

    New York City is easy to quit. Get on a bus, train, or plane and leave. Go ahead and be a quitter.   Except moving on isn’t the same as quitting. You got promoted and the new job wasn’t in New York City? You’re significant other got promoted and their new job wasn’t […]

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