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MEMOIR BLOGGER TALKS TO WRITER, GETS LOST

July 7, 2018 by

What’s the difference between successful books and the others? Books that get read and those that just get bought?   Empathy. Do you feel it? Does the writer make you feel it? Empathy and suspense, enough suspense to turn the page.   I met a writer, which is who I’d expect meet in a writers […]

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F CANCER WALK DOWN PORTLAND SOUTH PARK BLOCKS

July 6, 2018 by

  If holding paper from an institute of higher learning means anything, it means exposure to civil discourse.   I hold paper from Portland State University, so F Cancer.   Can I get a, “Hell Yeah!”

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121212 And The Baby Boomer Soul

June 23, 2018 by

Mick Jagger’s no Baby Boomer.   Too old, just like the 78 million born between 1946-1964. He showed up in 1943.   This is what I heard from Mick Jagger, “We’re glad to be here, but you’ll have to do us the same favor if it rains in London.”   He gets it, but it’s […]

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WRESTLING WITH CANCER via Coping With Cancer Magazine

May 31, 2018 by

      (The following is the text from Wrestling With Cancer. The article appears below.)   Cancer and the sport of wrestling have at least one thing in common: there are situations you get in that you can’t easily get out of. At least wrestling has a final whistle to end the match. Cancer […]

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ELLMAN SURGITRON AND DR. MOLEPDX

May 4, 2018 by

    What To Do If You Start Looking Like W.C. Fields? Make an appointment with Dr. MolePDX and the Ellman Surgitron.   Like most baby boomers I see new things when I look in the mirror. Some things are better than others.   One in particular was troublesome.   What do you do when you […]

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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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GUN TALK THE WRONG WAY … AGAIN

March 14, 2018 by

Raw Story posted a gun column about white men and guns. It was the sort of gun talk white men with guns shouldn’t identify with. “White men stockpile guns because they’re scared of black people and feel inadequate, science says.” That’s the rawstory title. It’s raw, but even more, it’s lazy, but a site called […]

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Two Shades Of Boomer Travel

March 13, 2018 by

  Even when you go someplace you’ve never been, you’ll find shades of familiar.   It takes a special place, one filled with its own internal music, to make everything old feel new again.   The band in my brain cranked up in Barcelona, Spain when I saw the Gaudi church, La Sagrada Família.   […]

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FACEBOOK WINGS ON AMERICAN AIRLINES

January 18, 2018 by

    I stood across the concourse, the airport hallway, from my check in studying my boarding pass with Group Nine printed on the bottom right side.   Group Nine is last to board, last to sit, and last to find an overhead bin for the carry-on.   Luckily my wife and I were flying […]

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MEXICO TRAVEL: PUERTO VALLARTA PERFECTION, pt1

January 12, 2018 by

    Where the heck is Puerto Vallarta? Find a good map book.   Look about two thousand miles south of Portland and you’re close.   West coast of Mexico below the Gulf of California.

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