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HOOK, BOOK, LOOK: JOEL SALATIN

In a hook for the ages, Joel Salatin drives his tractor right to the heart of health and nutrition. “If you think organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately?” He could have asked if you have priced heart disease, or diabetes, too. What he’s talking about is Death By Lifestyle through the choices […]

HOW TO POLYFACE FARM YOUR LIFE

Balance is the key to Polyface Farm your life. Fans of Polyface Farms and Joel Salatin know the drill: rotate animals from tract to tract, with other animals following and benefiting from each other. Learning the tricks of the trade from Polyface Farms will help when personal doubt and concern overwhelm the day. How is […]

POLYFACE FARMS, POLYFACE BOOMER JOEL SALATIN

The grass farmer of Polyface Farms. At a certain age you give yourself clearance to review your life, your accomplishments, the mountains you’ve climbed. If you have any laurels, you rest on them, trusting the comforts of your effort won’t wear thin. When is that time? Don’t ask me, and most of all, don’t ask […]

ADD YARD WORK TO ANY CRIME AND IT’S NOT A CRIME

The ‘get out of jail free’ card? Yard work. Rob a bank, steal a car, and do some yard work? Ok. Murder and pillage and do some yard work when I get back? Ok. It might sound easy, but adding yard work to your list of activities means doing yard work. If your yard needs […]

BIG BUSINESS WEED LIFE

Where real life and weed life cross. The scene: Six hundred sq ft, two bedroom duplex on West 420 and Avenue J with the co-owner living on the other side. One bedroom is rigged as a marijuana grow room with every state, city, and county license, permit, and certificate posted on the door. Their motto: […]

SHARE THE BURDEN, NOT ADD TO IT

Relationship talk turns into Share The Burden talk. Marriage works if you work at it. Baby boomer marriages get plenty of work. It’s built into the ceremony. To have and to hold, in sickness and health, and talk everything into the ground until it’s covered with dirt then pick it up and shake it out […]

D-DAY PRACTICE: DIEPPE, SLAPTON SANDS

History of D-Day practice neither grand or glorious. The real D-Day turned the tide in World War Two, but the two D-Day practice events left more dead than the real D-Day. Through those deaths communications improved. Coordination improved. And suppressing news improved. No one wanted it out that commanders had screwed up a D-Day practice […]

GOOD ENOUGH YET?

When ‘getting over it’ isn’t good enough. It all sounds the same. Get over it. Move on. Turn the page. Maybe you say it to yourself, maybe you hear it from others. If it’s others giving the push, you know what they’re really saying? You’re a whiner. In blogger land it’s whining about SEO, traffic, […]

YOUR MOMMA IS SO PORTLAND MOMS BLOG THAT…

Portland baby boomerpdx blogger meets Portland Moms Blog blogger in a parking lot. Does a web address across the back window of a car in Haggen’s parking lot mean ask me about it? So I did. Jen Knight turned out to be sunshine on a cloudy day; the Portland Moms Blog founder, owner, and power […]

YOU KNOW YOU MADE A WRONG TURN WHEN…

How often do we get warnings when we make the wrong turn? The #oregonstandoff took a wrong turn or two in the past month, but they’re not alone. How to respond when you learn a wrong turn could be a life saver? A wrong turn happens on foot, in cars, relationships. When things go wrong, […]