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TOM HANKS’ SPY TRAIN

October 26, 2015 by

The Bridge Of Spies Waits For Tom Hanks. Who doesn’t like a nice train ride. It’s a different view than the highway and you don’t have to drive. From a highway we even stop and watch trains as they pull a long line of cars. Trains unified America with that Golden Spike. You could travel […]

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ONE LOVE STORY

October 23, 2015 by

It Started Like Love Story, Then Everyone Said They Were Sorry. A nice man and nice lady met and became a nice couple. When they got married they were nice newly weds. They were nice parents when they had kids. A great family in the making, then things changed. One of the parents needed more, […]

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BACK TO THE FUTURE AT 60

October 21, 2015 by

Back To The Future Or How’d You Know It Would Turn Out Like This? By 1985 the oldest baby boomers were around 40 years old. They were old hippies by then, or peppy preppies if they cut their hair and learned how to trade bonds. Yes the boomer generation was settling in quite nicely toward […]

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BABY BOOMER YOUTH GAMES

October 20, 2015 by

Could Kids Today Benefit From The Game Of Stretch Or Mumbly Peg? If Millennials and the rest of us want to meet on level ground, we must learn to share our games. A game on television is the easy part. Click a station, then another, until you find a game you both want to watch. […]

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LEAVING HIPSTER PORTLAND

October 18, 2015 by

When You Leave Hipster Portland What Do You See In The Rear View Mirror? It rained yesterday; it was supposed to rain. Not mudslide, bury your car, knock you house off its foundation rain, but still wet. That’s news, right? Rain in Portland? To cover all the bases, it got dark last night, too. You […]

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YOUR POLITICAL DEBATE RIGHT HERE

October 16, 2015 by

Baby Boomers Saw The First Televised Political Debate With Nixon And Kennedy. The first televised political debate pitted seasoned pro Vice President Nixon against the young newcomer Senator John Kennedy. The young charger was four years younger than Nixon. They squared up for the biggest political prize in the land, leader of the free world. […]

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THE FIGHT FOR LOVE?

October 13, 2015 by

Not All Relationships Start In The Sunshine When You Fight For Love. What happens in the dark eventually determines how things work out in the long run. Be sure that’s what you want. 1. The guy dates a lot of women. He’s in his late twenties and still dates high school girls. He went to […]

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GRANDMOTHER GUNS IN PORTLAND

October 9, 2015 by

A True Story About Grandmother Guns In Portland Oregon. An elderly lady pulled her car into her NE Portland garage on a hot day. I was there to pick up a museum donation, three quilts for the Oregon Historical Society. Museums love fragile textiles, product packaging, anything you’d throw away a hundred years ago. Quilts […]

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AN AMERICAN MEMOIR FOR THE POPE

September 30, 2015 by

When The Pope Visited Philadelphia In The Shadow Of Rocky. Picture yourself in the land of our forefathers, walking on ground won by American blood. It’s the same American blood flowing through every American. That’s Philadelphia during the Revolutionary War and every war since. Two hundred years later Philadelphia was the site of President Ford’s […]

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HELPING THE EMERGENCY RESCUE

September 20, 2015 by

Or, How To Tell The Difference Between Yoga And A Case For Emergency Rescue. The gym I belong to is full of classes. Usually they happen in a dance studio with window walls on one side and mirrors on the other. It’s the usual schedule of jumping around with a wired up instructor, lifting Styrofoam […]

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