Men get most of the attention on military holidays even it’s not Memorial Day For Men, or Male Veteran’s Day. Those days include women, but mostly as a second thought, and it’s military women. Please remember the men and women who died in uniform. They’ve earned our respect from the Civil War to Afghanistan. Young […]
A BOOMER FAMILY TREE GROWS CLOSE TO TOWN
May 28, 2018 by
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 […]
HEROIN HISTORY TODAY
May 26, 2018 by
A person of heroin interest. Recent events around the Old Blog Coach’s yard brings back memories of the New York neighborhood. Heroin may not be on your radar, but it is stealthy. You don’t know until it’s too late, according to some heroin addicts parents. Still, no need to blame yourselves if your kid spikes […]
TEACHER ABUSE BAD FOR STUDENT BODY
May 24, 2018 by
How does a seasoned school administrator lose their job by ignoring students? When they decide some student voices are more important than others. The old saying about a squeaky wheel getting the grease may apply here, but the school official was out of lube. Now they’re out of a job, or will be […]
DELICATE DANCE OF FRAGILE FRIENDSHIP
April 28, 2018 by
Can friendship survive if you say the wrong thing at the right time, the right thing at the wrong, or even the right thing at the right time. If someone says the wrong thing at the wrong time, the friendship is doomed. No matter what the relationship, the wrong thing at the […]
COMMUNICATION BLIND SPOT IN THE EAR
April 27, 2018 by
Long married couples carry a blind spot in their ear on certain topics; they’ve talked about things, or only one thing, so often the momentum of communication is too great to stop. Try and reset the bar of understanding on those things in the blind spot. It might be the best gift […]
PORTLAND HEAT: HOW TO CELEBRATE BREAKING RECORDS
April 26, 2018 by
Last August one of my partners in crime (aka one of my sons) and I worked on inventory inside a few Arizona warehouses in record breaking heat. At least it broke the record for heat outside a sauna. Yesterday’s record breaking heat was about thirty five degrees cooler, which was a nice […]
HELICOPTER PARENT WISH LIST
April 15, 2018 by
My mother discovered stolen contraband the night she pretended to hang up my coat. The ‘hang the coat up’ frisk was a classic move. I’ve used it with my own kids. The item she found was a seventy nine cent writing tablet that opened like a book. She asked where it came from, I gave […]
NATIONAL VIETNAM VETERAN DRILL SERGEANT DAY
March 29, 2018 by
By the time of September, 1974, people joining the armed forces knew they wouldn’t go to Vietnam. At least the people who kept up with the Vietnam War knew, and keeping up was as easy as watching the six o’clock news. Back then joining the Army wasn’t the same as being drafted, […]
AUTHOR PHOTOS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS? Pt.3
March 18, 2018 by
Demonstrate how a book works? You can hold it, turn pages, but a book works in other ways. They hold doors open, shine light, give hope. An author thinks they’ve done one thing, but a reader takes it another way, which is the magic of book. We get to make […]
