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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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toughen up

Self Glossing Portland Writer Gives Cancer Warning

  “Warning? We don’t need no cancer warning,” said everyone who’s never followed directions even once.   With cancer warnings around every corner, every speck of asbestos in the ceiling, breath of air, drink of water, it gets wearing to the point of being normal.   More people with cancer? More young people? More millennials, […]

THE VIEW THROUGH PORTLAND EYES

Life Changes Year By Year With Portland Eyes. They arrive in pairs, young and old, men and women, all showing the gift. Everyone knew the drill inside the macular degeneration clinic in the middle of the Portland. Of each pair of people, one was getting eye treatment. How does it work? “I’ll move from room […]

PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS, pt2: FAMILY TRAUMA

Illness defines family trauma over time and it’s exhausting. Remember the movie Ordinary People? The family dynamic wasn’t defined by illness, but death of a child. It didn’t go well for the emotional state of all. There’s was a sudden adjustment with a lifetime effect. Living with a pre-existing condition, or around others with pre-existing […]

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Wild Life And Life In The Wild Not The Same

  Wild life is what you might see on a safari, or a drive from Portland to Bend. Or your front yard if you live in the woods where deer come to the door.   Living a wild life is not the same. Living wild takes so much energy. Being wild is a tiring option […]

YAHOO CALLS OUT BABY BOOMER DEBT

Why can’t they get the numbers right. UPDATE: Baby Boomer Birth Years run from 1946-1964. It’s more a reminder than an update, which is important when a Yahoo writer fits boomers age into the 65-74 age bracket. I’ll do the math. The youngest boomers turn fifty this year. Their life span runs from 1964-2014. So […]

Historical Debris: A Record Of Time

    Most museums have a bar they set for accepting historical debris, artifacts, one of a kind deals, and whatever an important person touched or signed.   Paul Revere silver, the last breath of Thomas Edison, the Magna Carta? No one is making any more of that stuff, so that’s a bar too high. […]

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APACHE TEARS HAPPY ENDING

    “Let’s meet one of my facebook friends,” I said one day during a Mesa Arizona visit.   “You met someone on facebook and you want to meet them?” she asked. “You never want to meet anyone.”   “Yes, I do. We’ll go prospecting. He knows where to find Apache tears,” I said.   […]

WINNERS OF THE BOOMPERPDX 500, pt.2

It starts like all good races, “GENTLEMEN START YOUR ENGINES.” The BoomerPDX 500 starts with directions. “There will be some right turns, there will be some left turns.” That’s more than you can say about the Indy 500. What more is needed? A map helps. Instead of time limits, the BoomerPDX 500 is a finishing […]

HOW TO WIN THE STARLIGHT PARADE

Answer 5 Questions To Win The Starlight Parade From The Suburbs. 1. You traveled to the Starlight Parade by: A. Bus, of course. I live my life by Tri-met. My vacations are all Tri-met vacations. Nothing beats a Tri-met schedule. We all feel the same here. B. Drove to the train. I enjoy public transportation […]

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