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AMERICAN RESUME SHOULD INCLUDE WHAT?

An American resume is different for everybody. People showed up early, some late, some are on the way. All need to realize what they’re hearing when the chant of, “USA, USA, USA” starts. Too many of the cheerleaders have a poor American resume, and it shows.

SHARING BLAME FOR AIR QUALITY: YOU’RE NOT THE PROBLEM?

Sharing blame requires a pointy finger to wag. Something happens, plans go sideways, and instead of fun you find disappointment. You could move on, but what about the unfinished business? First you need to assign blame. Get that finger ready.

SEARCH RULES: DON’T GIVE UP TOO SOON

Search rules come up when you need to find something bad. Real bad. So bad that your life plans may change if you don’t find what you’re looking for. Soon. What is so important to find?

ALASKA AIRLINES PROMISE COMES THROUGH

An Alaska Airlines promise is different than Hawaiian Airlines. How different? Alaska sent a refund check this week, a refund Hawaiian couldn’t find a way to make. What’s the big difference? First with Alaska:

PRESERVED LAND FOR THE AGES

Preserved land, or land preservation, needs help. You know the old saying, ‘they don’t make more land?’ It’s never more true than land holding Native American sites. And that’s the problem.

OREGON PRIMARY LISTENING FOR MILLENNIAL ROAR

Tuesday is election day for the Oregon Primary. But you already knew that. No? Now you do. Out here in the real west, not some landlocked desert version of ‘out west’ in states like Idaho, or Utah, or Arizona, we drag ourselves to the table, pick up a black or blue ink pen, open the […]

INTERNAL POLLUTION IN A BABY BOOMER WORLD

Internal pollution is the filter we see through. It’s our judgement, our favoritism, our prejudice, and bias. What we see runs through our up-bringing, education, life choices, and judgement. Did I mention judgement? Add cataracts to that mess and you’ve got a problem. Cataracts?

DYING LIGHT? NO, IT’S CATARACTS

“Rage against the dying light.” That’s the advice dead-poet Dylan Thomas gives old people. “Do not go gentle into that good night, rage, rage against the dying of the light,” means something different at thirty-three, when Thomas wrote it, than ninety three. If the lights are dimming in your life, instead of raging and raging […]

TIME CHECK: IT’S NOT ON OUR SIDE?

Every time you look at a clock it’s a time check. It’s time to do this, time to do that, time for dinner, time for bed, time to repeat it all another day. And that, dear readers, is the story of life. But, what about all the stuff that happens in between the time check? […]

CLIMATE WRITING: IS IT HOT IN HERE OR JUST ME?

Climate writing, climate change writing, global warming writing, are all stories to tell. The problem is those telling aren’t doing a very good job. Could I do better? Me? Hell, no. But maybe you could. Maybe you could tell it so it gets under the thick skin of big decision makers? I have ideas to […]