MUSEUM LIBRARY, LIBRARY MUSEUM
A museum library is a two for one deal.
Go to the museum, check out the library.
Someone always gets a surprise.
What’s the surprise?
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MODERN MEDICINE STILL TAKES TIME
Modern medicine takes time, but it’s worth the wait.
There’s something about getting sick, turning the corner to getting better, until finally a return to robust health and wellbeing.
Chances are good that you come back in better health with a new load of immunity.
Sometimes it’s a longer haul; this is a post for those travelers.
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CANCER TREATMENT CHALLENGES IN 2025
Cancer treatment.
Are there two more frightening words in any vocabulary?
If you have any friends or family in it, you know.
But, if it’s never touched up anyone you know, they are only words.
Just words in passing.
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toughen up
RESPECT WOMEN IF YOU RESPECT YOURSELF
It’s hard to respect women, or anyone, unless you respect yourself. Find a mirror and give it a hard look while you’re in front of it. Do you respect the image reflected back? If not, get to work. You’ve heard this saying, “You say you respect someone if you can’t say you like them.” […]
Neck Cancer … What Is It Good For … Absolutely Nothing
A reader left a comment recently that moved me to respond in a universal way. Hey Patrick, Thanks for coming over to boomerpdx. A quick question: How did you find me and this topic. I write about it a lot, but not too many show up in comments like you. I’m glad you’ll […]
HPV AWARENESS DAY STARTS MARCH 4, START WALKING
“Love is everywhere, unfortunately so is hpv.” That’s the message on the first HPV Awareness Day, and from the looks of things, a message that is taking root. It didn’t resonate with me in years past, not when I learned more about hpv and the numbering system, like hpv16. Not even last […]
boomer years
A MAY WEDDING AND ONE LOUD, “I DO,” LATER
A May wedding in a Fir Cathedral and still in the woods thirty one years later. Doesn’t every married couple have a theme song? They should, and it doesn’t have to be the same song forever. Just make it a song older than your marriage. And no Beatles. This ought to be the common default:
MODERN MILITARY GENIUS MISTAKE
How does military genius work? Start with technology. Military genius understands the role of technology. They’re geniuses for a reason. And they study stuff. Military genius comes in two flavors, weapons and tactics. It doesn’t take a genius to understand the evolution of weapons. Tactics are harder. The knife wins hand to hand fighting. The […]
WHO ARE D-DAY MILLENNIALS
You’ve seen comments for D-Day Millennials on social media. It’s not good, those comments. They start with remarks on a ‘safe place’ and move to ‘what kind of pussified men are we raising?’ Consider the sources if you can. Unless it’s Sergeant Rock talking, don’t get too concerned. Most of the time it’s men and […]
buckle up
NEW IMPORT FOR OREGON BEER FANS
Wicked Weed, Asheville, NC, for Oregon beer fans. Name a better brand for Oregon beer fans than Wicked Weed. All things considered, it’s perfect. To make it even better, Wicked Weed Brewing makes great beer, one in particular. You won’t turn into one, but Freak of Nature rises to the top of my road beer […]
THOMAS WOLFE PACK ON THE PORCH
If you don’t live in a state with a celebrated novelist, go to North Carolina and Thomas Wolfe. This is dark suited Thomas Wolfe, author of Look Homeward Angel, not white suited Tom Wolfe, author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Same neighborhood, North Carolina and Virginia, but different eras. That Thomas Wolfe was such […]
