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INVISIBLE BEAUTY: WHAT WE DON’T SEE

April 25, 2020 by

Invisible beauty is all around when I take a walk with my favorite. From the lattice-like leaves of a tiny plant, to clouds, to Mt. Hood, it’s all around for the taking. One of our walks goes past a rosemary bush that needs more trimming than the owner can do, and we love rosemary chicken, […]

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VIRUS TESTING REVIEW FOR DEADLY DISEASE

April 10, 2020 by

From available evidence, virus testing for the coronavirus is uncomfortable and expensive. And not as available in America as it is in other developed countries. However, virus testing for other bad things often feels like a rush job, a sales job, a ‘get it now or die’ job. But that’s not testing for coronavirus, it’s […]

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OLD PORTLAND BECAME NEW PORTLAND RIGHT AFTER I MOVED THERE

April 2, 2020 by

The term Old Portland usually applies to the city with pictures of a flood, like the flood of 1861, or the floods of 1894, 1948, 1996. By the way, it rains in Oregon, sometimes a lot. Will that ever change? No, but attitudes will change, have changed. But that’s not the Old Portland on boomerpdx.

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ANNUAL BEN AFFLECK APPEAL FOR 2020

March 3, 2020 by

This year the Affleck Appeal gets right to the point: time is not on anyone’s side, except Keith Richards. Now that Keith has given up hard drinking, and standing back from the cigarettes, he would be a good role model for Ben on his way back to the top of Hollywood. But first a few […]

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UNDERSTANDING BOOMERS IN A FEARFUL TIME

January 9, 2020 by

A brave guide for understanding boomers. To start at the beginning, baby boomers dropped into the scene after Johnny marched home from WWII. The early stages of the population wave were raised by WW II vets and lived around WWII vets.

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CHEMO COMEDY SHOW: WAS IT SUPPOSED TO BE FUNNY

October 18, 2019 by

In the final analysis, no, there’s no such thing as chemo comedy, just moments that surpassed some of the funniest things I’ve seen or heard. It started with the first appointment with the chemo doc. We’d met before.

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AARP WEED: “DON’T BOGART THAT JOINT MY FRIEND, PASS IT OVER TO ME”

October 2, 2019 by

At some point it had to happen: The AARP went front page with weed, calling it medical marijuana. They covered medical conditions and weed quality and bashful confessions on using weed, marijuana, medical marijuana, cannabis. Pick a name you like. To this boomer blogger it all sounds so disingenuous. Why?

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FIRST LETTERS IN MEMOIR: M E

July 11, 2019 by

I interrupted my blogging career when a story that needs telling appeared. The cancer that jumped to a bump on my neck opened the door to a bigger picture than, “Oh my, cancer in my neck. How did this happen?” I’ll always wonder how it happened, wonder how things would have been without it, wonder […]

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HPV16 CANCER, UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL

June 20, 2019 by

Getting to know hpv16 cancer up close and personal the way Brent King and I have exposes the best intentions from some of the best people. They offer wisdom and sympathy; they’re sorry; they do their best to show they care. Sometimes the caring part is unfamiliar territory, so it gets awkward. I heard it […]

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MUSIC PLAYS YOUR BRAIN WHEN YOU PLAY MUSIC

March 8, 2019 by

Music asks this question: Can you count to four? One. Two. Three. Four. Like that. Over and over the count goes on like a mantra. One Two Three Four Is there anything more?

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