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STARBUCKS BOOMER MORNING CHOICES

April 16, 2018 by

      That feeling when you’re driving long distance and have to make a head stop and there’s no rest area? Find a Starbucks, buy a tall coffee, problem solved.   Some of the best restrooms in public places are in Starbucks. Don’t like coffee? Then stop someplace else, like fast food, a gas […]

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AR15 PURCHASE QUESTIONS THAT NEED ASKING

April 9, 2018 by

    The Washington Post ran an nice piece about a guy buying his first AR15. He’d wanted one for years and finally the day came.   Money, motivation, and gun show all came together for him.   The WaPo research seems pretty good, even with a tag of fake news thrown around.   The […]

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MOTORCYCLE HOODLUM GRANDPA, EARLY WWII ANGEL

February 10, 2018 by

  One enchanted evening the man on the hog met a woman at a USO dance. He saw her across a crowded room. They married just before he shipped out to the Pacific Theater of Operations, PTO.   Score for a motorcycle hoodlum, but he was the least motorcycle hoodlum on the road.   He […]

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Neck Cancer And Alcohol Consumption: U.S. vs Belarus

November 9, 2017 by

  Neck cancer? In Belarus? Bela-where? Either check a map or be satisfied that Belarus is an eastern european country that used to be part of the Soviet Union.   And they drink. A lot. Belarus scores #1 on Market Watch’s survey of ten drunkest nations on earth. #2 is Republic of Moldova, #3 Lithuania, […]

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HPV16 Cancer Side Effects Include Blogs And Memoirs

October 4, 2017 by

    If you chose to be ‘The Face’ of anything, few would choose cancer of any kind. Be the face of something grand, something happy, something exciting. But cancer?   Add ‘The Face’ of an STD that leads to cancer and you’ve got HPV16 cancer. The same culprit for cervical cancer in women leads […]

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THE REAL GEORGE MARSHALL, AKA GRANDPA

August 21, 2017 by

  George Marshall, George Warren Marshall, Grandpa Marshall, a ground breaker for the ages. He was a logger, a tree feller, of a different stripe.   Once I asked him, “What’s the difference between you and the rest of the loggers drunk and fighting in bars after work?” “That’s not the sort of life to […]

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SEATTLE WORKS HARD FOR THE TOP SPOT

July 17, 2017 by

    A money man gave me the short history of how important places draw the right people to them, how they work. In the emerging Industrial Revolution world London was the center of the universe. Anyone with dreams and aspirations of being somebody, of one day being The Man, moved to London. Things changed […]

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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DEFINES SHADOW AND LIGHT IN ARIZONA

June 11, 2017 by

Look to Frank Lloyd Wright when the world grows too tight. Mr. Wright didn’t plan for jet contrails to cross over his compound in Arizona, did he? If heaven makes plans, and he gets a say, it couldn’t have worked out better during an inspection tour of Taliesin West.  Why else would the white lines in […]

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MOTIVATED LIFE: FEAR, ANGER, BIG FINISH

May 26, 2017 by

    From day one America grew an attitude of the picked on little brother. Instead of walking the plank of tradition and custom in the old country, early explorers took off for the new to live a motivated life. I hear Monty Python’s French accented, “Weee, doon’t neeeed yoooou.” That’s the enduring American story, […]

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PORTLAND WRITER NIGHT, @WILWRITE, ON WRITER RADIO

May 3, 2017 by

On Portland Writer Night everyone’s a writer To express feelings, first you’ve got to find them. That’s what writers do. Feelings about a nice day, delicious food, good company, and a warm bed? Not so much. Too easy. The veneer of the shared moment turns to smugness on definitions. Instead, find the feels for loss […]

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