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STRONG WOMEN HELP LIFT EVERYTHING

July 3, 2022 by

Strong women get that way on purpose. They’ve seen problems that needed solving, and did the work. It’s the sort of work not suited for weaklings. Or men. Any men.

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LAST CONVERSATION UNTIL NEXT YEAR

June 20, 2022 by

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?

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HAPPY BIRTHDAYS OF THE FUTURE WITH CHILL

May 29, 2022 by

Happy birthdays seem to tail off the older you get, and that’s just sad. We all get excited for little kids’ birthdays, but what happens when they get older? Around my place they get better. Here’s why:

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CLOUDY DAYS TAKE A SHORT BREAK

May 20, 2022 by

Cloudy days in Oregon? How can that be? Where I grew up no one complained about the rain. If they did that would have been all they talked about. There’s more going on than cloudy days, but what do you do when all you see are clouds?

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WHO CARES? YOU CAN LEARN WHO

May 6, 2022 by

Who cares about others is a big mystery most of the time, but peeling back the layers shows who’s who. Leaders, the people voted to lead, are elected to care. Isn’t that the idea? When a state like Kentucky puts up winners like U.S. Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, you might wonder if there’s […]

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MY MOM THE MOTHER IN LAW

April 29, 2022 by

After a recent mother in law conversation I ended up disappointing myself. Why? Because I took the easy way out with the customary role, traditional values, and ducked the whole thing. Not that I don’t have plenty to say about mothers in law. My dates introduced me to the moms and dads more than a […]

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GOING HOME THE LONG WAY

March 13, 2022 by

If going home doesn’t bring the warm and fuzzies, you need to review. Are bad memories of a bad home town a problem? You should check your map for the best way to get there. If current times are any measure, being homeward bound is not getting any easier.

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ZOOMER HELP TIPS, NOT THAT THEY’D ASK

December 20, 2021 by

Zoomer Help, Generation Z assistance, is the last thing anyone needs. Not with characteristics like this: Members of Gen Z are digital natives. When it comes to apps and devices, they don’t need instructions, and they don’t ask for them. And this: Members of Gen Z are highly educated. This is helpful in what way? […]

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RECONNECTIVE TISSUES? WHY ARE THEY SO DAMP

October 18, 2021 by

Reconnective tissues don’t come in a container. You won’t find them in a printed square box under a ceramic cover on a toilet tank , or in a plain flat rectangle from the Kleenex company. Reconnective tissue can be a handkerchief, or a shirt sleeve. Even a shoulder, someone else’s shoulder, unless you’ve got enough […]

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WORDPLAY POWER GOES WRONG? WATCH YOUR TONGUE

October 13, 2021 by

Wordplay power: the activity of joking about the meanings of words, especially in an intelligent way. Those are the funny people having fun with wordplay power. Intelligent funny people. They see things and hear things that make them laugh, and we laugh along. The meaning of words changes over time. So has what’s been considered funny. Oddly enough, we change over time, too. What about […]

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