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WRITING TOOLS: THE SHORT LIST

Writing tools were easy in the beginning.
Either write something worth reading.
Or, do something worth writing about.
Is there more? There’s always more.
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MY BEATLES MARATHON

First off, it didn’t start as a planned Beatles marathon.
I hadn’t even thought of it when my wife came home and said, “This is the same music I heard when I left this morning.”
Me: Hey Siri, play The Beatles for two days.
No, I didn’t say that. Nobody says that, but here we are, Day 2.
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BASHING CIVIL DISCOURSE TO NEW HEIGHTS

How often do you catch yourself in civil discourse and regret what you’ve said?
It usually goes something like, ‘this would have been better if I had just stayed on topic.’
That’s the polite self-talk. The other?
Not so polite.
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THE RUBY ANNIVERSARY LANTERN

What’s a ruby anniversary?
We’ve all heard of the silver and golden anniversaries, but ruby?
Weddings are funny things, and now so are anniversaries.
You don’t want any missteps or mistakes, so in service to all matrimonial celebrations:

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CUVÉE MOTHER’S DAY WITH CHEF GILBERT HENRY AND COMPANY

Mother’s Day grows more importance when it’s part of a masterplan.
Add a road trip with a restaurant at the end and it edges toward epic.
It goes without saying that any two lane drive through rural Washington and Yamhill County is enough to make you want to sell everything and move into a dilapidated barn in the country, it also shows what pulled pioneers out of the midwest.
A forty minute trip does all that before you walk into Chef Henry’s realm of Cuvée in Carlton.
Cuvée?

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The Best Medicine Not In The Cabinet

When the New York Times posts on Facebook you know it’s an important subject. Newspapers in the digital age can’t afford to waste print. Is it war in the Middle East? Famine in Africa? Economic doom in America? Is sweating good for you? It’s all of the above, but the last one is tricky.

NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS KNOW NUTRITION FIRST

  My wife shared a joke with me. She’s a naturopathic physician, Dr. Gillaspie. It had nothing to do with the old television show with young Dr. Kildare and his colleague Dr. Gillaspie.   “Early in our practices doctors from my class would talk about what it must be like as an RD, a real […]

Cancer Message Still In The Merck Ad Mess

  Call me a late bloomer. Maybe you are too? My discoveries and enthusiasm come after most things have moved on. But it still counts for something. At least that’s what I tell myself. I’m telling you, too, it still counts, you still count.   I’m late to see the parent shaming ad for hpv16 […]

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WIFE BOSS FROM 1950 TO 2016

Did Fifties women even listen? Everyone’s got advice on what they don’t know about. They connect dots, paint pictures, and still can’t make you can’t see it. Anytime you reach into recent history, you’re showing stuff with easy proofs, references, sources. Real easy, like millions of pictures, documents, oral histories. Especially with women’s history, a […]

COMFORT ZONE AND BIG SNAKES? GET. OUT.

      If you’ve ever seen a snake wrangler in their comfort zone, they probably don’t look like this. There I was in a lovely Santa Monica apartment with nice people in Los Angeles.   They seemed like nice people, then I saw the snake in a cage.   “Do you like snakes?” someone […]

IF MILLENNIALS SUCK, WHO ELSE SUCKS

A recent poll questions whether millennials suck as bad as everyone else. Too many times you hear about the new ‘biggest ever’ generation in negative terms. You’d think millennials suck worse than any other generation. Baby boomers enjoy dragging the youngsters around by their arm and reminding them they suck. Millennials seem to enjoy the […]

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A LIKE FOR OREGON

What Brings You To A State Isn’t The Same As What Keeps You There. Take Oregon and New York for example. You stay around Portland for different reasons than people stick around NYC. Size is important. For hundreds of miles around Manhattan people won’t leave, never think of leaving, because of the island. “Oh, we […]

NW Boomer Travel, pt.1

The Oregon Alps If you look back at Portland from LaGrande, the miles pile up. But you’re not done. You can’t drive to the Swiss Alps on Interstate 84, but the Oregon Alps are a tank of gasoline away. Look for highway 82 and read the signs to Joseph.

SUPERIOR ARIZONA AFTER APACHE TEARS SEARCH

    One of the most impressive rocks I’ve knocked out of a rock wall? Apache tears.   Just another rock until I held it up to the sun for my own solar eclipse.   What’s going on in there? See through rocks in Superior Arizona.

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