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TAUGHT IN SCHOOL, LEARNED AT HOME

Where I come from what I learned in school, what I was taught in school, was echoed at home.
What I learned at home made me a better student.
Can I blame my parents that I wasn’t the valedictorian? Or salutatorian?
Or top half of my class? Maybe.
I just asked my wife, “What’s the most important thing you learned in school?”
(Since she’s soon to retire she’ll have time to appear here.)
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DIFFERENT SOLDIERS? HOW DIFFERENT

The men in uniform during WWII were different soldiers, different kind of people.
The Axis powers carried an extreme devotion to duty, an extreme devotion to their emperor, and an extreme devotion to cruelty over helpless victims.
By the way, this isn’t new, not breaking news, but a reminder for short-memoried morons who ought to know better.
All of the extreme devotion of the German and Japanese armies ended with their defeat?
What exactly ended?
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BABY BOOMER CRY TOWEL

Who else needs a cry towel? Everyone.
Who admits it? Not everyone.
The problem is not everyone had a cry towel when it counted.
Like when they were a baby.
You can see it in people who think of kids as just another mouth to feed.
Instead of the biggest thing ever, that baby found themselves born into a convenient file.

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RECLAIMING MY TIME ON SOUTHERN OREGON COLLEGE SIXTY-FIVE YEARS LATER

Southern Oregon College Graduating Class of 1960: My dad.
He transferred after two years at Central Oregon Community College in Bend.
It was a well used path to the first college degree in his family.
He was thirty years old, an old 30.
Back then thirty was older, fifty was a grandparent. Hit sixty and you’re probably dead a few years.
Southern Oregon College changed his life. And, I’d like to say, since davidpdx strives to honor higher education, it changed my life too, although five year old me was still only five years old.
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RETIREMENT GYM GUY IN EVERYONES FUTURE

Meet retirement gym guy, the man who’s been everywhere, done everything, driven every kind of car made, and needs you to know all about it.
They know what you should do, when you should do it, and where.
With emergency warning levels, you’ll learn about their most recent illness, surgery, and recovery.
It could be going better, they say, but it is what it is.
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JAPAN QUESTIONS HPV VACCINE, STD RATES RISE IN CALIFORNIA, PEW RESEARCH SHEDS LIGHT

  Japan questioned the use of an hpv vaccine based on animal research?   Thanks to members of my sharp network of researchers like G. M.-S. I received this news over the facebook wire.   The issue regarding a paper questioning the scientific results got answered when the paper was withdrawn, as it should have […]

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, […]

24HR FITNESS vs $20

BETTING AGAINST THE ARMY AT THE OSU WALL? 1. Why does Oregon State University have a Marine Corps obstacle course near Gill Coliseum? Because OSU serves the Army, Marine, Navy, and Air Force ROTC. 2. Why would one former wrestler with a bad wing bet another he couldn’t climb over the red wall with the big yellow […]

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BABY BOOMER RETIREMENT FEARS

Big life and big fears? Or the other way around? Baby boomer retirement fears come in all sizes, like our houses, which we fear. A doctor might say fear that won’t go away is a medical condition. You could get a pill for that. Instead, try and choke your fear down and carry on. What’s […]

Favorite Places: Home Sweet Home

    The picture I see in my mind when I leave the house. The home fires burning, and my little dog putting out the flames. It’s her favorite carpet.

BOOMER ENTREPRENEUR: GOOD IDEA?

Our newspaper of record, the Oregonian/oregonlive.com, broke the boomer news. Baby Boomers too young to retire and too old to hire embrace what they’ve always embraced: Themselves. Can’t believe it? The book ‘I’M OK, YOU’RE OK’ started out with a working title of ‘I’M OK, I’M OK, I’M STILL OK, OK?’ The ME GENERATION reminds […]

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FIRE ON THE CAROLINA MOUNTAIN

A sunset walk on Sunset Trail, and Marshall Tucker. Fire on the mountain Lightning in the air Gold in them hills Waiting for me there

EXTRA ROOM AIRPLANE SEATS? FOR WHO?

  From the crowds I’ve seen at airports, people have learned to negotiate the hurdles. With the hope of not being the only old and confused passenger, OCP, I pay attention.   Walk up to a screen near the airline you’re flying and key in the info you copied at home from a confirmation email […]

AT THE TRIMET BUS STOP, pt 2

One part of weird Portland, the Keep Portland Weird part, is SantaCon near a TriMet bus stop. If you’re a fan of SantaCon and like dressing up in Santa gear and bar crawling Portland, then you’ve seen this. If you’ve never dressed been a Santa, this is your chance. Drinking beer with hundreds of Santas […]

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