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BASHING CIVIL DISCOURSE TO NEW HEIGHTS

How often do you catch yourself in civil discourse and regret what you’ve said?

It usually goes something like, ‘this would have been better if I had just stayed on topic.’

That’s the polite self-talk. The other?

Not so polite.

CUVÉE MOTHER’S DAY WITH CHEF GILBERT HENRY AND COMPANY

Mother’s Day grows more importance when it’s part of a masterplan.

Add a road trip with a restaurant at the end and it edges toward epic.

It goes without saying that any two lane drive through rural Washington and Yamhill County is enough to make you want to sell everything and move into a dilapidated barn in the country, it also shows what pulled pioneers out of the midwest.

A forty minute trip does all that before you walk into Chef Henry’s realm of Cuvée in Carlton.

SHARING SPECIAL DAYS, EVERY LAST ONE

Special days have special meaning which don’t hit the same for everyone.

For some it’s repeating, “Why bother,” for the fortieth time.

Others like to say, “I thought we’ve moved past all that.”

But you still find those looking for something special in every day, and keep looking until they find it. Hell or high water.

The last line is the bell ringer.

CANCER TREATMENT: 5 THINGS I KNEW BEFORE STARTING

I will submit to the cancer treatment sequence of events that may or may not do what is predicted. Like a lamb to slaughter, I would submit to whatever it took to kill the shit out of hpv16 throat cancer. In the writing world we all dream of that one ‘YES’ that […]

CANCER VIEW: WEED FROM THE OTHER SIDE

My cancer view had more weed hope later than sooner with DAG approved brownies. It started with a look for an alternate route for a cure instead of chemo road. What I found was a log of death in men who’d gone the alternate route instead of chemo, then switched to the hard stuff […]

BILL GATES KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HPV AND HIV?

Bill Gates is not a doctor. Nor is he a college graduate. So how is it he’s smart enough to know the difference between HIV and HPV? This is a man smart enough to give medical advice to the most powerful man in the world, leader of the Free World, President Donald […]

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IF YOU TRY SOMETIMES YOU JUST MIGHT FIND

You Get What You Need. How many baby boomers have taken advice from Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones? If your answer resembles, “I used to listen to them,” it’s time to reset. Just because you got older doesn’t mean the songs of your youth lose their meaning. It could be the opposite. Consider the […]

AGING IN PLACE MEANS LIVING IN PEACE

Baby Boomers yearn for an Aging in Place state of mind. If all we are asking is give peace a chance, why not ask for more, like a peaceful place to live? This aging behemoth of a generation, these Baby Boomers, are asking for more. They say they want to age in place, like aging […]

LOVE AFFAIRS OR LEARNING AFFAIRS

Do past love affairs affect the future? What happens between two people ought to be like Las Vegas: what happens there stays there. Except it never happens that way between two people, three or four people, or a whole team of people. No judgements, just call it a social agreement between adults who know how […]

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ELON MUSK JOINS THE SHARING ECONOMY WITH TESLA PATENTS

And Slaps George Selden’s Face In The Act. In a rare case of reverse capitalism, visionary Elon Musk gave away the farm by open sourcing Tesla electric automobile patents. He gave it away instead of using the patents to sue everyone who infringed on the technology. Now auto makers the world around have access to […]

Air Oregon My Oregon Paradise West Of Cascades

For a moment let’s skip the romanticized view of the state. The brown patches across these images are clear cut lumber sections, replanted with more trees. Why are they brown? It’s not because of brown trees. Air Oregon shows too much. Oregon, My Oregon via Oregon Blue Book, music by Henry […]

MANHATTAN STATES OF MIND ACROSS AMERICA

Does anyone see a Manhattan sunrise and feel the power of the Big Apple, the urge to go out and take a big bite? Or a Manhattan sunset at the end of another satisfying day sorting chicken and chicken sh!t. Manhattan promised you could make it anywhere if you could make it […]

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How often do you catch yourself in civil discourse and regret what you’ve said?

It usually goes something like, ‘this would have been better if I had just stayed on topic.’

That’s the polite self-talk. The other?

Not so polite.

What’s a ruby anniversary?

We’ve all heard of the silver and golden anniversaries, but ruby?

Weddings are funny things, and now so are anniversaries.

You don’t want any missteps or mistakes, so in service to all matrimonial celebrations:

Mother’s Day grows more importance when it’s part of a masterplan.

Add a road trip with a restaurant at the end and it edges toward epic.

It goes without saying that any two lane drive through rural Washington and Yamhill County is enough to make you want to sell everything and move into a dilapidated barn in the country, it also shows what pulled pioneers out of the midwest.

A forty minute trip does all that before you walk into Chef Henry’s realm of Cuvée in Carlton.

It was a cloudy, wet, day, in May 1986 for the last wedding.

Like so many raised on the Oregon coast, a cloudy, wet, day, is good luck no matter where you are.

Everything was done, everything set in Sandy, from rented morning coats to a rented preacher.

The preacher was a second choice.

Special days have special meaning which don’t hit the same for everyone.

For some it’s repeating, “Why bother,” for the fortieth time.

Others like to say, “I thought we’ve moved past all that.”

But you still find those looking for something special in every day, and keep looking until they find it. Hell or high water.

The last line is the bell ringer.

toughen up

boomer years

buckle up

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