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MUSEUM DAY LIVE. WORTH IT?

September 24, 2015 by

This Saturday Opens The Door To A Free Museum Day Live. Will You Go? Of all the free things in the world, Museum Day Live looks like a steal. Two free tickets await you upon registering with Smithsonian Magazine. Name, email, the usual. Aside from balking at joining yet another list that may or may […]

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Museum Boomer, pt 3

June 24, 2013 by

How To Tell If You’ve Got Enough Stuff? A sick breath exhaled from the shuttered old Fox Theater on Broadway. You could smell it from the sidewalk. It had a taste. Since any taste in the air is suspicious, it wasn’t good. Portland Museum Boomer came to pick up historical theater stuff, like the brass […]

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Museum Boomer, pt 2

June 24, 2013 by

Is There Ever Enough Stuff To Go Find? Stuff with unexpected strings came from a deceased man’s house. A museum curator reviewed an inventory of stuff in the house and made a small list. The recent death gave the job a sense of urgency to get in and get out, but also called for more […]

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Museum Boomers, pt 1

June 24, 2013 by

What To Do When You Say Enough To Stuff? Stuff comes to us in different ways. Sometimes we find it, sometimes we buy it. When we get too much stuff we have to make choices. If we have good stuff, we should make good choices. Baby boomers like making good choices. Giving stuff to museums […]

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DAMAGED MEN DON’T ASK FOR BAND-AIDS?

October 28, 2024 by 2 Comments

Damaged men are all around, but you’d never know it. Why? Not because they tell you, because they don’t. In a show and tell world, they do the show part better than the tell part.

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GARAGE GOALS FOR THE NEAR FUTURE

October 26, 2024 by Leave a Comment

Garage goals come in two types: clean and messy. Take a mechanics garage for example. One is organized and tidy in a messy business; the other shows old parts stacked in corners and debris all around. Who do you want working on your car?

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CARE ENOUGH WHEN IT MATTERS, OR . . .

October 14, 2024 by

Does anyone care enough? Yes? No? Depends? Ask someone who cares about everything, all the time, with every fiber in their soul, blah, blah, blah. They care, just ask them. How can anyone care so much about so many things? What’s the secret? Please continue:

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AMERICAN PROCESS = THE GRIND

October 9, 2024 by

American process is what we’re famous for around here. The U.S. didn’t become what it is today by scrapping everything and starting over, although some argue that that’s what FDR did in the Great Depression. Not my argument. Why? Because FDR was schooled in the American process. He had been a state senator, assistant secretary […]

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FAMILY TIME SUNSET ON THE WESTERN EDGE

October 1, 2024 by

Family time needs a motto, and this could be one: “It’s better to create something and be criticized that to create nothing and criticize others.” But what feeds the creative force?

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