Family hate means family values 0. Are you the right gender? Check early pictures to see if you’re wearing the right clothes. If you’re a guy and your baby pictures look like a girl, relax. General Douglas MacArther wore a dress and long hair as a child. It was the fashion, and it didn’t hurt […]
LEARNING FROM WHERE YOU LIVE, PT2: BABY BOOMER ERA
March 24, 2017 by
The baby boomer era state of mind. What is there to learn from the baby boomer era? Every passing year the nostalgia grows stronger, but that doesn’t change history. Consider the boomer time line from 1946-1964. The oldest boomers were twenty year olds in 1966. The youngest were twenty in 1984. My cohort […]
PORTLAND RENTS A LIFESTYLE, WHO PAYS THE FREIGHT
March 18, 2017 by
One solution to rising Portland rents At first tiny apartments got the shit because they went up in neighborhoods with streets jammed by normal parking. Now the micro havens are a solution, a reason for a drop in the rent crisis. And those bikes? Millennials and bikes and small apartments? It happens. Add […]
ANTICIPATION VS PARTICIPATION pt 1: LEARNING
January 3, 2017 by
Don’t let anticipation ruin participation. Here’s the situation: you have a plan to do something you’ve never done before. This is when every past failure shows up saying, “Who do you think you are?” Past success whispers, “You’re ready for this.” Of course we always listen to the reasonable voice, either one. No matter […]
BABY BOOMER ANTHOLOGY, A LIFE IN COMMON
May 20, 2016 by
Every family has a man with so much backbone you’d think he has two of them. Such a man might have been injured on the job and took up another line of work. Maybe that man was a logger who broke his back in the woods and took up ranching. His biggest regret was missing […]
IS COLLEGE EDUCATION A TRUST FACTOR?
February 17, 2016 by
Do you trust people with more college education than you? The old rule was get a college education and get a good job. A college degree opened doors. A high school diploma used to be the ticket to success. What changed? Boomers used to work high school education level jobs during their summer college break. […]
KING OF THE HILL IN NORTH BEND, OREGON
January 9, 2016 by
People know the place when you say you’re from North Bend. Ask someone where there from and you expect one answer, one place. Then you get this: “I grew up all over the place.” Hear that and know you’ve got someone ashamed of where they’re from. They know the name of their town, they just […]
COLLEGE FOOTBALL COMPARED TO SINGERS
January 4, 2016 by
College football feels like singers, but which ones? College football has one steadfast rule when comparing teams: you can’t compare eras. You need to compare teams and their times instead of one decade to the next. But you can compare college football to lady singers of the same era. This era comparison includes Beyonce, Adele, […]
OUR OREGON TOWN TO YOURS
October 2, 2015 by
Not Much Happens In Our Town And That’s How We Like It. Our Oregon Town Likes It Too. Our Town opened in 1938, portraying the lives and events of a small town in New Hampshire from 1901-1913. The dates are important. Our Town shows life before WWII. Thornton Wilder had WWI and The Great Depression […]
