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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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GYM RAT CONFESSIONS: FEAR DRIVEN EXERCISE

    Every fitness center, every last one, from 24Hour, to LA Fitness, to Curves, has a mayor. They also have city councilmen/women, department heads, and gym rats. The gym mayor checks their constituency. They spot, they talk. They walk from machine to machine. Gym councilmen / women spread an array of weights and surgical […]

SWING HARD OR SOFT, BUT HIT THE SWEET SCIENCE

If The Heavy Bag Could Talk No matter the age or gender, we never lose the urge to fight. We fight for one thing or another all our lives. It’s not always called a fight, but it can feel like it. And you can still win. During the 1920’s Golden Age of Sports, college football, […]

PORTLAND STORY THEATER TELLS THE TALE AT WILLAMETTE WRITERS

  Lawrence Howard and Lynne Duddy ran the first Willamette Writers meeting of 2018. For all the wishes for a Happy New Year still echoing, their presentation confirmed the idea.   I came in right as they started and found a seat in the back, the last seat open. I start every meeting with high […]

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All American Moment Of Serendipitous Patriotism

    One fine summer day in Philadelphia I found myself walking east on Market Street in the company of friends and family toward Independence Hall. The Liberty Bell was still in residence. I remember aunts and uncles and cousins and roommates all hiking toward the July 4th, 1976 Bicentennial speech given by President Ford. […]

SCIENCE, HISTORY, OREGON’S BOOMER BLOGGER

Boomerpdx: Where science and history collide.   Science and history carry the weight of understanding our common roots. First science, then history. Why? The early people didn’t read or write. By the time their remains were discovered in the fossil strata enough people made the connections. Look at those skulls. Do you see a Darth […]

HOW A BOOMER HEART BREAKS

Which generation has the best broken hearts? Baby boomer heart breaks lead the pack. Remember the first time your boomer heart broke? Something went wrong. Someone said the wrong thing. Was it a mistake, a misunderstanding? Don’t get the shovel and start digging it out. Don’t check your high school year book. If you cut […]

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OREGON v ARIZONA PT 1: STATE FACE OFF SERIES

Despite news fakery to the contrary, the sun does shine in Oregon. It’s an elusive beam natives flock to like mosquitoes to a zapper. Not the same in Arizona where people hide in shade half the year, and no mosquitoes. The trade off is a raincoat or sunscreen, the smart gear every Snowbird packs in […]

PORTLAND’S BOOMER CASTLE ON BROADWAY

You don’t have to go to France to feel the grandeur of a beautiful room. Or a cathedral in Spain for the ornate. Walk into the Benson Hotel on Broadway for the same feeling of WOW. The size is different, but the details are wonderful. For an Old World taste in the New World, this […]

PORTLAND’S EASTSIDE ALIVE

An Outsider Guide To Portland’s Eastside ‘Neighbourhood.’ When Virgin Atlantic blogs about your city expect a few things to be off. Not wrong exactly, just not quite the same as it looks. Portland’s eastside has an Artisan Quarter. Artisan? Quarter? I’ve heard Paris has a French Quarter but this is the first I’ve heard of […]

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