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TAKE A HARD LOOK, THEN ANOTHER

The last tine I took a hard look at anything my brain logged in.
Is it important?
Did it matter?
Should I care?
What to do about it?
The answers:
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BUILDING HISTORICAL HEALTH WITH AN ‘EXPERIENCE’

The good doctor says ‘historical health’ is important for local and national well-being.
The downside: you may discover things are not as you think they are.
The upside: you may discover you’re better than you think.
I call it Win-Win. Why?
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DON’T TALK BACK TO WHO?

When someone says, “Don’t talk back to me,” what’s your first impulse?
Give them some back talk, or shut up.
You already know what they want.
What about you?
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ADULTISM: JUST DO IT?

Adultism: making mistakes and passing the knowledge on without admitting how you learned it.
“Mistakes? Not me. I just know things because I’m smarter than you.”
If you haven’t said those words, you’ve heard them and thought, ‘this is what smart people say?’
And we wonder why young people don’t respect their elders any more than baby boomers did in their younger days.
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WRITE FOR BETTER OR WORSE, RICHER OR POORER

Write for better because who doesn’t want to be better, hope for better, strive for better.
A better you is good for everyone else.
The better you doesn’t fly off the handle at every setback, spin out at every turn in the road, or quit when the going gets tough.
The best you handles diversity with calm and coolness, but you’re not there yet?
Shocking news reveals no one else is either.
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THE VIEW THROUGH PORTLAND EYES

Life Changes Year By Year With Portland Eyes. They arrive in pairs, young and old, men and women, all showing the gift. Everyone knew the drill inside the macular degeneration clinic in the middle of the Portland. Of each pair of people, one was getting eye treatment. How does it work? “I’ll move from room […]

Miranda Dating Rights For The New Era Of Rising STD

    Have you ever asked someone out on a date?   Probably.   Did you read them the ‘Dating Rights’ questions?   Going out on a limb here with probably not.   Why would you?

PRE-EXISTING CONDITION AFTER CANCER DIAGNOSIS

The day a cancer diagnosis becomes a pre-existing condition   Like we learn everyday when things change, everybody is different. What you do after a cancer diagnosis isn’t the same as someone else. They might go along their way as if hearing a bee buzzing nearby. Shoo, cancer/bee. Or they might fall down on their […]

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SANDWICH GENERATION GRANDY MAKES THE RIGHT CALL

I am in a storage space in my house throwing away rings of gauze and squirt bottles of skin care and wound cleaner. It’s a throwback moment with Grandy, my mother in law who passed two years ago. If I had PTSD I would have been thrown back. Instead it was a sweet memory. But […]

ART WALK OF SE PORTLAND, AESTHETICS AND SWEAT

It’s The Art Walk Of Portland, Not Breaking And Entering. Art As Beauty. My art guru suggested a Saturday art walk. I had a week to think about it, but said yes right away. Art and walk both sound like a good time. Art Walk? Twice the fun. Ceramics, paintings, and all inside houses you’d […]

PORTLAND HEAT: HOW TO CELEBRATE BREAKING RECORDS

    Last August one of my partners in crime (aka one of my sons) and I worked on inventory inside a few Arizona warehouses in record breaking heat. At least it broke the record for heat outside a sauna.   Yesterday’s record breaking heat was about thirty five degrees cooler, which was a nice […]

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Walking Portland Memory Lane One Alley At A Time

As much as you hear about people moving to Portland, loving Portland once they get here, it’ll never be their home until they’re walking Portland on memory lane.   Like, “This is where I used to play basketball, where I got beat by a five foot six opponent,” didn’t ring up the oooos and ahs […]

LIVING UNDER A PORTLAND CHERRY BLOSSOM CANOPY FOR AN AFTERNOON

    Portland cherry blossom between Burnside and Steel This side of a drone video the best place to see the whole run of the Portland cherry blossom parade is the on ramp off Front to the Steel Bridge. Just enough space and height to see the beautiful curve of nature. It looks deserted at […]

PORTLAND MOVE REVIEW: WHERE TO LOOK

Things look different before a Portland move. The Portland move is actually a move to Portland, not the Portland of California, the Portland of the midwest, or the Portland of the South. Call it the Portland of Portland. But where do you start with someone else in the car planning a Portland move?

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