HISTORY MIRROR CLOUDED AND SMEARED
Political turmoil gets reported daily with breathless anticipation and wide-eyed horror.
It’s good to remember that America’s United States that we believe in are united by thin threads and that those threads have always been thin.
How thin was that thread when one Senator beat the dog shit out of another on the Senate floor?
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DANGEROUS COMBINATIONS TO BE WARY OF
Dangerous combinations come in every variety in all walks of life.
In baseball it’s a fastball followed by an off-speed pitch for a third strike.
For boxing it’s a left jab followed by a right cross for a knockout.
In football it’s a running play followed by a pass.
But, what about the non-sporty stuff?
Like what, you ask?
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WALK AWAY PEOPLE? KEEP WALKING
The problem with walk away people is what they leave behind: their mess.
Someone will do the clean-up, just not them.
They’re too busy.
Not too busy walking, too busy making their next mess.
There’s always something funny about them:
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Health Writing? Start With Cancer And Drill Down
Health writing is about bringing hope to the afflicted. Cancer writing, not so much. One is about the future and the steps to make it better. The other is layered with dread. One is about improving conditions, about personal bests, about gains; the other is layered with dread. Health writing brings nutrition, […]
CANCER TREATMENT NEEDS THE ROCKY TALK FROM DR. BALBOA
When you need a pep talk who do you listen too? I go to Rocky Balboa for the good stuff. When he started out with, “Let me tell you something you already know,” he had me hooked. It’s like the doctor telling me I’ve got HPV16 tongue cancer. He had my attention. He told me […]
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BOOMER FAMILY AND PAT CONROY
If The Great Santini Couldn’t Break His Family, What Broke Your Boomer Family? The author Pat Conroy, one year older than the first baby boomer, had a traumatic childhood by most accounts. He’s a good boomer spokesman for the voiceless masses who wonder why things go wrong. Call him a senior boomer. He mined his […]
LETTING GO. HOW HARD CAN IT BE?
It’s Easy Until You Try. Portland baby boomers, Oregon baby boomers, or what the hell ALL baby boomers, know how to let go. We’ve doing it for years. Sometimes with help we don’t ask for. Think of the era boomers grew up in. Let go of the old and embrace the new. We were young […]
BACK TO THE FUTURE AT 60
Back To The Future Or How’d You Know It Would Turn Out Like This? By 1985 the oldest baby boomers were around 40 years old. They were old hippies by then, or peppy preppies if they cut their hair and learned how to trade bonds. Yes the boomer generation was settling in quite nicely toward […]
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NW Boomer’s Adventure Coast
How Much Excitement Can You Take? The Southwest Oregon Coast Has The Answer. Drive south on I-5. When you see signs for Eugene, keep going. Turn off at the Drain exit for Hwy 38 and don’t stop until you find Hwy 101 and Reedsport. Then turn left for another southern run. Just past Lakeside you’ll […]
THOMAS WOLFE PACK PART 2
The rest of Thomas Wolfe pack part 2 begins with big shoes to fill. (Click here for Wolfe Pack One.) How big? Wolfe was six feet six inches. He didn’t prance around in ballet slippers. His sleds probably rolled to size fourteen or fifteen. Like a forty inch waist in mid-life, and shopping at the […]
The Perfect Baby Boomer Ride
or The Perfect Garage Meditation Take a 1972 Scrambler 350. Find a seat in front of the picture. Turn on a fan. You’re in baby boomer blogger heaven. Of course you could crank it up and take it out, but that mountain road is too good to pass up. “I don’t want a pickle. just […]
HAES AND THE NATUROPATHIC DOCTOR
What is HAES? So glad you asked. Health at Every Size might sound like a New Age phenomena, but it’s not. It started in the baby boomer days of the 1960’s. If you missed it between Save The Trees and Save The Earth, others didn’t. People have always come in all sizes, however shaming is […]