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OREGON PROSECUTORS AT REST

With Each Other? Office affairs, romances, attractions? Happens all the time. Single people dating each other is normal. Dinner? Drinks? Taking a walk? Growing a network and connecting the dots couldn’t be more exciting. Oregon prosecutors looking down the road need all the help they can get. By getting closer they learn more about their […]

ART WALK OF SE PORTLAND, AESTHETICS AND SWEAT

It’s The Art Walk Of Portland, Not Breaking And Entering. Art As Beauty. My art guru suggested a Saturday art walk. I had a week to think about it, but said yes right away. Art and walk both sound like a good time. Art Walk? Twice the fun. Ceramics, paintings, and all inside houses you’d […]

HEMP HYPE FROM A GANJA GANGSTER

What Is Hemp Hype? The Oregonian showed up with a front page above the fold image of someone about to roll a pile of weed into a single zigzag sheet. It’s an inflammatory image geared to race the hearts of the anti-hemp crowd. Baby boomers know this scene. They’ve either lived it or left the […]

BoomerPdx And End Of Life Debate

Oregon wins the trifecta for end-of-life discussion. 1. Oregon Senate Bill 451 establishes the nation’s first state registry of people’s wishes for end-of-life care. 2. U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer’s H.R. 1898 allows funds for doctors discussing end-of-life choices with their patients. 3. The state has allowed physician-assisted suicide/death with dignity as a final option. In […]

THE BLAZERS: 5 BOOMER THUMBS UP, 5 THUMBS DOWN

Also Appearing On Oregon Sports News. THUMBS UP 1. Paul Allen. We’ve seen how other computer billionaires handle their teams. Mr. Allen is no Steve Ballmer? That’s good because Ballmer’s more than one of a kind. He’s one of a different kind. If computer guys didn’t like the nerd label, or didn’t before they got […]

OREGON SHARING: WHEN IS IT ENOUGH?

The Sharing Economy, Or Just An Excuse To Complain. For all good reasons to share, because it’s the right thing to do, because you can make money doing nothing, because it’s so easy, there’s as many reasons not to share. That’s the sharing economy. Use my stuff for a price. A lower price than buying […]

HOW TO: 50th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Look For Lots Of Portland Baby Boomers Lining Up. 1. Get married young and stay married. You’ve got a slim chance of getting to fifty on either a second marriage or a late first. Look at the obituaries and you’ll see high school sweethearts listed. Usually the husband makes the list first. What to do? […]

1080 THE FAN GOES ON A HOST HUNT

Admit it, you’ve been in someone’s car with sports talk radio on and thought, “Please just shut up.” But they don’t turn it down. The driver won’t change the station. You don’t ask. The radio hosts keep repeating things three times. You wonder who the last two are for since you heard it the first […]

THE MARCUS MARIOTA DESPERADO

What is it about the University of Oregon’s Marcus Mariota? He shows up year after year. He hits the mark and gives his teammates all the credit. His Heisman Trophy speech is ready made for every young football player’s wall. Every parent wants to hear their kid speak so well of the world they occupy. […]

WHO PLAYS STORY MUSGRAVE IN THE STORY MUSGRAVE STORY?

Seventy nine year old Story Musgrave is a name we all should know. My sons saw the movie Interstellar and decided it was the perfect show for their old man’s sixtieth birthday. And they were right. I was moved by a movie, which is what’s supposed to happen, right? I left with a yearning feeling […]