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AMERICAN WEED MAP, WITH HIGHWAY TO HELL

January 26, 2020 by

Google ‘legal weed map America’ and this is what you get. Or, maybe it was ‘legal weed state map.’ The pic is a screen shot. The dark left side are legal weed states with weed stores. The bottom right is a lighter shade on most maps.

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NOSY IS DIFFERENT IF YOU’RE THE NOSY ONE?

January 25, 2020 by

Who’s the nosy one in your circle of people? Do they still have their noses? If they do, maybe they’re not nosy enough; that’s where we come in.

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EMPATHY ADDICTION: IT HURTS WHEN I FEEL

January 23, 2020 by

Is empathy addiction a call to action every time you feel something so intensely you have to do something? “That could’ve been me; I’ll make sure it never happens again.”

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DRY JANUARY IN PORTLAND OREGON WITHOUT THE JITTERS

January 22, 2020 by

The first time I mentioned Dry January to a stranger, they corrected me. “I believe you mean Sober October.”

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WRESTLING WITH THE DEVIL, A SUN DEVIL, AND WINNING

January 19, 2020 by

Great wrestling stories are journeys, internally and externally. From The Odyssey, to Tom Sawyer, to Saving Private Ryan, a journey works to transport readers into the lives and times of those written about. Tonya Russo Hamilton joins the ranks of those who capture time and place and deliver a story flowing with streams of emotion.

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ESSENTIAL READING TO IGNORE . . . AT YOUR OWN RISK

January 18, 2020 by

One blogger’s essential reading is another’s fire-starter; that’s just how it is. Except the book in Ken Kesey’s hand won’t start any fires today, not the way it started fires in his younger days.

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RELUCTANT TRAVELER REPORTS PROGRESS

January 15, 2020 by

How many times has a world traveler started telling their story only to be interrupted by a local traveler? The short answer? Too many.

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL FINAL: HOW ABOUT THOSE OREGON DUCKS

January 14, 2020 by

The Oregon Ducks didn’t play in the college football finals last night. Neither did Oklahoma. Today the final rankings came out. Oregon was #5 in the polls that matter, #7 in a network poll where the people probably didn’t stay awake for PAC12 games, and #6 in a poll of experts last updateD in early […]

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CANCER MEMORIES: UNEXPECTED MOMENTS OF LOVE AND KINDNESS

January 13, 2020 by

I made a list of cancer memories to use in my memoir. Not all of them made the cut. A book needs the big stuff; these are the smaller cancer memories:

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UNDERSTANDING BOOMERS IN A FEARFUL TIME

January 9, 2020 by

A brave guide for understanding boomers. To start at the beginning, baby boomers dropped into the scene after Johnny marched home from WWII. The early stages of the population wave were raised by WW II vets and lived around WWII vets.

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