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YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU. HOW’S IT GOING?

June 8, 2017 by

Human nature kicks in hard on the question of right or wrong. You always want to be right. So does the person who is wrong. If it’s too hard to decide who is right or wrong, find a third-party, but first agree to live with their decision. The biggest problem with right or wrong is […]

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BOOMER SON OF ENGLAND DIES 13 YEARS AFTER STABBING

May 31, 2017 by

Boomer son Alexander Lloyd, dead at age 36, thirteen years after a stabbing left him in the sort of condition that calls for medical miracles. Family care helped him for from age twenty three, then an infection set in that couldn’t be stopped. Alex is the son of my wife’s cousin. My boys met their […]

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PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS, pt2: FAMILY TRAUMA

May 5, 2017 by

Illness defines family trauma over time and it’s exhausting. Remember the movie Ordinary People? The family dynamic wasn’t defined by illness, but death of a child. It didn’t go well for the emotional state of all. There’s was a sudden adjustment with a lifetime effect. Living with a pre-existing condition, or around others with pre-existing […]

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SUBURBAN DAD DEATH: THE TIMES, THE TOWNS, THE TEAMS

April 11, 2017 by

Explaining suburban dad death to suburban kids Get married, have kids, and if they’re athletes you’ll see every town within thirty miles. The Canby Cougar will bite you. Get ready to be mauled by a Tualatin Timberwolf. Run from the Newberg Tiger. Every town’s mascot sounds fierce until suburban dad death shows up. Then you […]

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DOES YOUR FAMILY HATE YOU ENOUGH? GET BUSY

April 7, 2017 by

  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 […]

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TRAVEL ENGLAND WITH FOREVER YOUNG MILLENNIALS

April 3, 2017 by

  Aging in travel England Some moments remain frozen in time for better or worse. Remember when you missed middle school graduation and summer football workouts? Your parents decided to drag you around England instead. And your life was ruined. That last thing you wanted to do was be a show pony for your folks. […]

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LEARNING FROM WHERE YOU LIVE, PT.1: NORTH BEND

March 22, 2017 by

    Ask the North Bend question. In a reflective moment that soon passed, I asked my Dad which of us grew up in a rougher town. I felt certain he’d say his town, Ryderwood. Ryderwood was a logging camp town, a company town with a company store. The one thing all logging company towns […]

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7 BILLION AND COUNTING? THAT’S A LOT OF BIRTH UNCONTROL

February 5, 2017 by

Facing birth uncontrol with “Tell me what to do?” For starters, don’t do THAT!   Personal uniqueness and individuality? Check. Fully armed with human rights? Check. Warm and dry and fed? Check. Ready to listen to the other 6,999,999,999 scream out to be like you? Sorry, man, you’re breaking up. You wanna repeat that? ‘Cause […]

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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 […]

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CARE COACHING TIPS

July 23, 2015 by

When It Comes Down To Just You, Care Coaching Makes A Winner. Have you visited a loved one in a nursing home and looked around? What did you see going on in there? How do so many people arrive at this particular destination? Most people have a patented answer: “People need the best care available […]

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