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TURNING PORTLAND INTO A STOP ON THE WAY TO SEATTLE

August 7, 2017 by

Turning Portland skyline The First Interstate Tower and Big Pink set a future that didn’t happen. Concerned citizens got a break before turning Portland into mini-Seattle One tall building was enough, or so the thought went, but two is better? Because they’re bookends instead of standing side by side, the space between them look as […]

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CANCER MEMOIR, WRITING THE EXTRA SECRET TABOO

July 21, 2017 by

    Vice.com published a piece with a funny headline in 2012: Cancer Memoirs Are Breaking Out Like the Plague Now it’s 2017 and I’m writing a cancer memoir. Still funny? Yes, it is.

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ANOTHER HANSEN FAN, DOCTOR HANSEN

July 9, 2017 by

When life takes a bad turn you need good guys. This is one of them. Dr. Hansen is a Board Certified Radiation Oncologist. Once you see the equipment and meet other patients, you get a bigger picture of what people like Doctor Hansen do. After it’s all over, you hope you found the right driver […]

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HOW MANY WINNING SUPER BOWLS TO FINISH FOOTBALL

February 18, 2017 by

    Winning Super Bowls make history every year, like this year’s comeback. And it’s still not enough.   Hardly anyone argues that Tom Brady isn’t the best ever. Better than Joe and Terry with their handful of rings and MVP gear. You’ve got to give it to him. Others say he’s the best of […]

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WOMEN WHO RULE, part 1

November 3, 2016 by

We all know women who rule. Once upon a time, or fifth grade for those keeping score, my Mom was a neat freak. Every time I took off my coat after school she hung it up. A place for everything and everything in it’s place. She worked for the state, a DMV staffer and later […]

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BABY BOOMER ANTHOLOGY, A LIFE IN COMMON

May 20, 2016 by

Every family has a man with so much backbone you’d think he has two of them. Such a man might have been injured on the job and took up another line of work. Maybe that man was a logger who broke his back in the woods and took up ranching. His biggest regret was missing […]

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DESTINATION PORTLAND

March 18, 2016 by

Once you move out, the city becomes a backdrop for Destination Portland. Oregonlive posted the story 9 Legit Reasons To Leave Portland For The Suburbs. Like millions of stories to stay in the Rose City, there’s just as many for leaving. The more questions you ask people about leaving Portland, the more you realize no […]

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BABY BOOMERS ENJOY HOT YEARS HOLDING ONTO THINGS

February 28, 2016 by

First we Hold Onto Things to stand up, then Hold Onto Things to stay up. Hot sounds good. A hot dinner. A hot rod. A hot shot. Hot is a difference maker. Hot is cool, until it’s not. Growing up baby boomer was cool when the Sixties were hot, but how cool could you be […]

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STEPPING ON YOUR DUCK FOOTBALL?

September 29, 2015 by

Oregon Football Stepped On Their Duck. Now What? Watching the Ducks fly south at Autzen was a shocker that’s settling in slowly. That it was the worst defeat since the 1977 season was an unwanted reminder of dark Duck days. As a UofO student in 1977 high scores for the other team didn’t feel as […]

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HOW TO PORTLAND RIGHT

August 10, 2015 by

New Arrivals Need To Portland Right Or Else Why Move Here? You’ve met the new neighbor, the new kid on the block, the one who can’t stop talking about where they came from. Maybe it’s Boston they talk about, the loser in the Portland name coin flip. They love Boston and everything about it. With […]

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