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What’s Better Than A Garden Party? Eight Garden Parties

June 3, 2019 by

Forest Grove Opens Their Yards For Friends Of History The most important part of a garden tour, or yard walk, is avoid comparing every stop to your yard. Yes, you’ve done incredible yard work and you’re proud as a pick axe the way it turned out, the same pick axe you broke your water line […]

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FEELINGS, WHOA, OH, OH, FEELINGS

May 31, 2019 by

Feelings are learned early in life, in the middle, and late in life. Each stage can be as difficult as the last. Who we become depends on how we’ve learned go express our feelings. Especially feelings of love. You never forget feelings of love, right?

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MY PEOPLE, YOUR PEOPLE, AND CHANGE

May 29, 2019 by

I’ve heard but never said, “The thing that never changes is change.” It comes with, “Change is always hard at first.” Not to forget, “Change is a way of life.” Adapting to change is like climbing a mountain. Yes, I climbed a mountain and can check that box, just not a Mt. Everest traffic jam […]

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CHOOSING CHOICE: THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR YOU

May 28, 2019 by

Choosing choice is as American as America gets. From remembering to mind your own business, to ‘Don’t Tread On Me,’ we are a nation of individuals. And because we come from all points of the compass, not everyone agrees with everyone else. One thing we practice, and need more, is agreeing about the freedom of […]

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Learn The Tools, Then The Gun

May 27, 2019 by

War does one thing well, it gives a new vocabulary for death. One young man knew it front to back. “You’ve caught the best weather in Portland,” he said.  “Been too hot or too wet.  Not like this.” The weather?  It’s a start. He was built thick, maybe six feet tall. “Nice. After this I’m back […]

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CHOICE MATTERS WHEN CHOOSING BREAD

May 23, 2019 by

Choice matters whether party planning around a main course of Vienna Sausage, cheese fondue, or cheesesteak. The right bread is of utmost importance. It can’t be too dense, too airy, too crusty, too mushy, too dark, too white, too seedy, not seedy enough. Bread has to be just right when choice matters, especially when you […]

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HOW SPORTS LIFE GUIDES REAL LIFE

May 22, 2019 by

Sports life not about winning and losing, but how you play the game? Real life says sports life isn’t an accurate reflection, that winning is the reason, the only reason, to do anything. People in the winning camp like to say winners do what losers won’t do. They’re not wrong, they just don’t know what […]

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PORTLAND NBA DREAMS IN DUST BIN AFTER WC FINALS

May 21, 2019 by

Who loses to the World Champions in sport? Everyone. The Portland Trail Blazers were taken out in four games. In three they had a good lead in the third quarter. Fan comment runs from quitting to choking, leaving out the part where the Warriors made them quit and choked them out. One fan keeps a […]

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PORTLAND PANSIES ON A GOOD DAY

May 20, 2019 by

Or How To Help The Blazers Tonight The first rule of Portland pansies is you don’t talk about Portland pansies. No one wants to be compared to pansies past or future, especially the Portland Trail Blazers in an elimination game in the Western Conference Finals. To put them over the top I fulfilled the necessary […]

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MOST FEARFUL GENERATION TODAY: INTERVIEW

May 17, 2019 by

And it’s not the big ones The beauty of writing a blog is the feedback from unexpected sources. Most of the reading audience for BoomerPdx is afflicted by the internet ghosts of privacy protection, bashfulness, or worst of all, they’ve forgotten how to work a keyboard, so the feedback I hear is in person, which […]

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