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A PERSONAL PRIVATE LOVE STORY, PART TWO

January 2, 2019 by

    My biggest goal this year is getting my cancer memoir-70’s dating history-love story to a literary agent, to a publisher, to the book store in every airport with books for travelers who need something to avoid thinking about what could wrong on take off and landing and everything wrong where they’re headed. I’ve […]

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AMAZON SEARCH FOR BITTER, ANGRY, PROFANE MEMOIR

December 28, 2018 by

    Amazon search is easy, like google, except you can buy the search results right away. Not so much on google prime. I’m not searching as much as researching the competition during editing breaks of my cancer memoir in the works, and happy to find great books on the topic, though not too many […]

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HOW TO #FINISHCANCER TODAY, START AT THE RIGHT END OF THE PROBLEM

December 27, 2018 by

      Every cancer patient wants to hear the same thing from a doctor: “The treatment was a success. You’ve had a full response. We see no sign of cancer existing where it had been.” But getting to the finish line of cancer treatment reveals success and failure along the way. #FINISHCANCER today by […]

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WHAT SORT OF PARENT DID YOUR PARENTS WARN YOU ABOUT

December 19, 2018 by

    Did you become the sort of parent your parents warned you about? Are you surprised? We had stern warnings growing up about kids from unsupervised homes, which meant anyone different than us. Those were houses we weren’t allowed to visit. It was supposed to be a vaccine against hard partying high school nights. […]

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SOCIAL MEDIA SUPER STAR IN THE WINGS

December 18, 2018 by

    News reports about social media and the ‘new awareness’ we all need to observe will never keep grandma from posting new baby pictures. ButI think I get the point of the warning. From my census training I learned how to gather visual evidence at the door if a citizen didn’t want to interact […]

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RISK MAKES THE REWARD ALL THE BETTER

December 14, 2018 by

    Looking forward to life after BIG LIFE events seems a little hollow. Less attention, more routine, but those damn feelings? When a normal day asks you to do something with it, what’s the answer? You’re still amped up on the big life event to risk taking on anything with other than full steam […]

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SHAKEY GRAVES INSIDER FUN

December 13, 2018 by

    The last time I saw a touring musician’s guitar go wrong it was The Police and Sting broke a base string and replaced it without missing a beat in the song they played. Afterward he joked that a real band would have stopped and corrected the problem before restarting. In the history of […]

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KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU, (UH HUH)

December 11, 2018 by

    Knowing Me As a young child in an unsupervised moment one of my playmates decided to ride his trike. I hopped on the back axle where there was room to stand and gave him a big push. Except he pulled back on the handle bars just as I pushed and popped a wheelie […]

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THE BEAUTY OF BEING AN ENTREPRENEUR

December 10, 2018 by

      Over the years I’ve had a ring side seat watching the most impressive entrepreneur I’ve seen. My wife, Dr. Elaine Gillaspie, has changed her focus as times have changed. Beginning in Northwest Portland as a doc in an existing clinic, she opened her own practice in partnership with another Naturopath, then moved […]

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ONE MAGIC MOMENT (AFTER ANOTHER)

December 9, 2018 by

    This is now it happens, just like this with no exceptions for race, religion, nationality, gender, orientation, or other sharp distinctions of separation.   How do I know it happens like this for everyone? Because if it didn’t happen like this for you, this is your new memory:   THE DRIFTERS This magic […]

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