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PORTLAND PINK DAY

March 20, 2026 by

   

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NO WRONG CHOICE BUT PICK ONE

March 20, 2026 by

 

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QUIET LIFE STARTER KIT

March 19, 2026 by

Does a quiet life begin with keeping quiet? If so, how’s it going? Or does it mean something else? Let’s go with something else:

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END OF THE LINE . . . “ARE WE THERE YET”

March 18, 2026 by

It’s one thing to see the end of line, a whole other to drive past the start in Newport, Oregon. If I have a full tank of gas I hit empty after 460 miles. Eight tanks later, give or take, I’d be in Boston. Might take a week of 500 mile freeway days, or two […]

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BORING, TRIVIAL, POINTLESS LIFE? GOOD JOB

March 17, 2026 by

Doing a good job means what? Following orders and delivering a finished product according to the highest standards of the industry? Let’s not get carried away. How about finishing on time with something that works the way it’s supposed to work? You can do that and your masterpiece at the same time. If you don’t […]

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MONDAY MORNING STARTER: COMPLAINING?

March 16, 2026 by

Monday morning, like every morning of the week, starts with a quick look online to see what’s up in there, to see if anything sticks past the first scroll. What stuck? Complaining. My online peeps are disappointed in their engagement numbers. No one reads their posts. And it hurts soooo bad.

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HIDDEN SONGS OF THE OREGON COAST

March 15, 2026 by

People play their guitar in the basement alone looking for hidden songs. Hidden songs? There you are moving around the fretboard and something sounds different. You play it again. Nice. While you play you remember the old times you had when you were younger. Like yesterday.

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COLD WET OREGON WITH EXTRA WATER

March 14, 2026 by

On a cold wet Oregon day the beach was covered as far as the eye could see, and since it’s flat you can see a long way. Jelly fish, man of war, or whatever it was, it was a mass die-off of squishy critters up and down the beach, a purple carpet of goo to […]

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DO MORE? LIKE WHAT

March 13, 2026 by

You need to do more to matter? That’s what you ask yourself when someone says,  “You need to do more to matter.” Have you heard that? I still hear it and I’m not some spring chicken pecking my way around the pen. When is enough enough?

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BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY YOU SAY?

March 12, 2026 by

I just finished reading about one man’s dedication and defense of the biographical essay and thought, ‘blog post?’ Like most writers, he lost me in the digressions. Like most online readers, I scrolled on. But here’s what you need to know:

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