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NEW YORKER THURSDAY IN THE MAIL, A LESSON IN READING

October 4, 2024 by

The New Yorker magazine is my only subscription and I’m surprised how much fun it is. I actually look forward to it, which has been a surprise over the past year. I know what I’m doing on New Yorker Day:

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK? COME ON NEW YORK

April 19, 2020 by

Doing the right thing in New York is the same as doing the right thing in Oregon: Stay home, keep a social distance. My social distance from NYC is 3000 miles away, but it wasn’t always that way. Frank said it best:

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NEW YORK CITY 1980: HOW TO QUIT A GREAT TOWN

April 5, 2018 by

    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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THE KING OF NEW YORK CITY, 1975

April 9, 2017 by

Stoner nation rolled in the muddy Woodstock slip and slide in upstate New York. Five years later they took a shower, got a haircut, and danced the disco. Top New York City discos needed the right people managing the door and lines that grew down the sidewalk most weekends. Full of Queens, Brooklyn, and Jersey […]

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DONALD TRUMP: A NEW YORKERS’ NEW YORKER

September 28, 2016 by

Whatever else he is, or says he is, Donald Trump is 100% New Yorker. If you’ve lived in New York, or live in New York now, you know the deal.   Say the name New York and the same image pops up. Upstate isn’t that image.   As a group, New Yorkers live in a […]

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NEW YORK CITY IN THE 70’s

August 31, 2015 by

When The Going Gets Freaky In New York City In The 70’s, Fly That Freak Flag If You’ve Got One. I found comparison pictures of before/after Detroit, with today looking worse for wear. At the same time New York City photographers started showing their city in the seventies. It’s called everything from gritty, to terrifying, […]

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LEAVING PORTLAND ON NEWSBREAK.COM? OKAY, BOOMER

April 10, 2023 by

Leaving Portland is nothing new. People decide to move on and that’s what they do. No hard feeling? Unless you click on Newsbreak.

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WORKING HARD IS HARD WORK. WHO KNEW?

December 10, 2022 by

Working hard used to be a rite of passage. “Start sooner than later and enjoy the rewards longer,” was the message. So hit the grind and go until there’s nothing left to grind, like this cartoon from the New Yorker? Then what?

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NEW COMPASSION WITH A KIND RIGHT HAND

November 26, 2021 by

A new compassion has made its debut. And proved my Mom was correct. She believed most problems could be solved by slapping sense into whoever needed it. As one of her four kids, just hearing her theory was enough. Her career included managing a DMV office. (Keep that in mind the next time you complain […]

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OREGON EXPERIENCE: WHAT TO EXPECT IF YOU’RE NEW TO THE STATE

September 24, 2020 by

People come from far and wide for the Oregon experience. They leave with gratitude for their time here, and make plans to return. After thrilling at the waterfalls, mountains, and beaches, they see places like Kansas and Oklahoma through new eyes. They take the Oregon experience home and make it work. By the way, what […]

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