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LAST CONVERSATION UNTIL NEXT YEAR

One last conversation before Father’s Day, 2023. If you have adult kids, it helps to talk to them. Based on the inspiration from one of my favorite twitter follows, it’s important. Do your kids know you better than you know your own parents?

FATHERHOOD QUESTIONS ANSWERED: WHO’S YOUR DADDY

Fatherhood questions come up all the time. But they change for dads as they age. If you heard them early they sounded one way; but if you heard them later?

SCRIPT WRITING: KNOW WHEN TO END, Part 3

A script writing master class produced an original piece of work that’s still in progress. I took the class after buying and reading books about script writing and beating the odds in Hollywood. Part 3 follows Part 2.

SCRIPT WRITER: WWII ON BOOMERPDX, PT 2

This script writer picks up the story of Jimmy, Johnny, and their dad after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Jimmy had been on the island working on his family’s business, electronics and early radar. They stood to make a haul in the coming war. Jimmy had other plans. We pick the story up there.

OREGON PRIMARY LISTENING FOR MILLENNIAL ROAR

Tuesday is election day for the Oregon Primary. But you already knew that. No? Now you do. Out here in the real west, not some landlocked desert version of ‘out west’ in states like Idaho, or Utah, or Arizona, we drag ourselves to the table, pick up a black or blue ink pen, open the […]

COMMUNICATION SKILLS: MEN TRYING TO HEAR WOMEN

Communication skills are complicated to say the least. If I had one wish, I’d wish men listened to women better than they do. Though you can never know how you’re interpreted, why not try harder? What do women want? Let’s start there:

PERSONAL GOLIATHS AND HOW TO SLAY THEM

My first personal Goliaths, like most everyone growing up with parents, were my parents. I knew they were unslayable from the start. One because they were giants most of my early life, and two, they were my parents. What are you thinking? Besides, my dad had been a Marine Drill Instructor and my mom was […]

ACCEPTABLE LOSSES? WHO DECIDES FOR BOOMERS

Acceptable losses are like minor surgery. There’s no such things as minor surgery, just minor surgeons. Or, it’s minor surgery if it’s someone else going under the knife. Losses are the same. The closer you are, the less acceptable the loss.

LAST CONVERSATION UNTIL NEXT YEAR

FATHERHOOD QUESTIONS ANSWERED: WHO’S YOUR DADDY

SCRIPT WRITING: KNOW WHEN TO END, Part 3

SCRIPT WRITER: WWII ON BOOMERPDX, PT 2

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: WWII ON BOOMERPDX

HEALTH UPDATES FOR BETTER LIVING TODAY

OREGON PRIMARY LISTENING FOR MILLENNIAL ROAR

COMMUNICATION SKILLS: MEN TRYING TO HEAR WOMEN

PERSONAL GOLIATHS AND HOW TO SLAY THEM

ACCEPTABLE LOSSES? WHO DECIDES FOR BOOMERS

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