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PREDICTING FUTURE HEALTH CONCERNS

February 4, 2019 by

I don’t always post about health, but when I do it’s life or death, not a sniffle. Read on.

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BABY BOOMER ALERT: YOU’RE OLD AND YOU CAN’T HIDE IT ANYMORE

February 3, 2019 by

    A question for readers in the baby boomer demographic: when did you realize you can’t hide your age? Was it when you first made a skin tent on the back of your hand? The first dark spot that looked just like the one you remember on your grandma’s arm? When you noticed something […]

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LADY GAGA UNIVERSAL BROKEN HEART

February 1, 2019 by

The universal Lady Gaga is the universal broken heart. She sings about emotions and seems to show the song across her face. Barbra Streisand did/does the same thing. Liza Minelli, too. But what makes Gaga different? I think I know.

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PORTLAND LIVING FOR BEGINNERS

January 31, 2019 by

  Like real life, living in Portland doesn’t come with a guide book. A book might seem like a good idea from every new thing you read and hear about the city, but at the end of the day you’re screwed if you think living here is some kind of paint by number life. Just […]

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CLASSIC PORTLAND, JAKES, JANE AUSTEN

January 30, 2019 by

Classic Portland isn’t a memory, or some sort of dream. It’s not a TV show or a few blocks on the Eastside. Classic Portland is what the new people see when they move here; it’s what they’ll complain about when they move to Tigard in ten years.

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CONNECTIONS: MCDONALDS HAND DRYER, WASHINGTON VOICES, FAST LAW

January 28, 2019 by

    Connections? They are what you hope for when you network at a gathering; what you hope for when you plug something into the wall and turn it on. Personal connections, professional connections, electrical connections; they all ought to work if you follow the usual instructions. Share something of value, listen for help, and […]

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PORTLAND BUILDING UP, BUILDING DOWN

January 26, 2019 by

The difference between building up and tearing something down looks the same at some point in the project. Taking a building down leaves a trail of crap all over the place; prepping a site to start building does the same thing except with more organization. Walk past any fenced off block in a growing city […]

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HOW YOGA SLOWS TIME

January 25, 2019 by

    What’s the first question? Does yoga really slow time down? Let me start with a strong ‘Hell yeah yoga slows the clock.’ But really? Does it slow time down? Imagine yourself in a strange situation, one with a calming reputation, and to no one’s surprise all you feel is stress trying to fit […]

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WRITING THE BOOK I WAS DESTINED TO WRITE

January 24, 2019 by

    An English major joke goes like this: I like to write poetry, but I suck at writing poetry. So I wrote a short story that was worse than my poem. To fix the problem I wrote a novel and it’s the worst yet, and this explains the deluge of bad writing.

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FRENCHMAN FINDS WOMEN OVER 50 INVISIBLE

January 23, 2019 by

    Is this the man all French women under fifty yearn for? I won’t post his name, but a Frenchman decided the world, at least his world, needed to know how he felt about getting older. More specifically this Frenchman told the world that was listening he found women over fifty somewhat unappealing. This […]

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