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FIRE STARTER FOR YOUR FACE: MATCHBOOKS

October 28, 2025 by

If you smoke cigarettes you need a fire starter. It won’t light itself. A few decades ago, quite a few, it seemed like everyone smoked. I worked in an office in the early 80’s that allowed smoking at your desk. Some people did it with a smoke filter, others just let it rip when they […]

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THE PAPER CEILING FIRE

September 27, 2025 by

You’ve heard of the ‘paper ceiling?’ No? Now you have. “Millions of workers with in-demand skills and experience, overlooked for higher-wage jobs because they don’t have a bachelor’s degree.” They don’t have a bachelor’s degree? Like that’s the ticket for a good life?

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THE MENTAL GREAT DIVIDE

May 22, 2025 by

The great divide is a function of nature. It’s also called the continental divide. From a geological stand point it where water in the form of rain or snow flows toward either the Atlantic Ocean or the Pacific. To help illustrate how this works hold your hand flat, then give it a quarter turn and […]

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FIRE CONTROL: HOW NOT TO BURN DOWN THE HOUSE

October 25, 2022 by

Fire control is not this man’s strong point. Not mine or my neighbor’s either. Two out of the three of us caught things on fire, and this guy’s next.

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SANTIAM PASS: FIRE AFTERMATH PHOTO ESSAY

October 15, 2021 by

A Santiam Pass fire isn’t finished when the last flames are out. There’s the environmental clean-up. Then restoration. They bring out the manpower and big rigs for the work. Imagine what it looked like during the fire based on what it looks like now. Is terrifying too much? I don’t think so because it jumped […]

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WHAT I LEARNED BY STARTING A RANGE FIRE

March 15, 2019 by

Like how to put it out. During a high school sports trip a team in two vans drove through Wyoming. If memory serves, Wyoming was the closest state to Oregon selling fun fireworks like bottle rockets and firecrackers after a lifetime of sparklers and Piccolo Petes. Since we were high school guys in both vans, […]

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FIRE ON THE HIGHWAY

January 27, 2016 by

(Inspired by Marshall Tucker’s Fire on the Mountain)   Left my family on my Arizona land Drove to Oregon with a loosely laid plan Winter’s cold there and life is hard Sometimes I wish I was in my sweet desert yard   Now there’s fire on the highway One man laying dead We tried to […]

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BOOMER ROCK HISTORY IN FIVE SONGS, pt. 1

September 21, 2014 by

1. I FOUGHT THE LAW by the Bobby Fuller Four. This is what you listen to after you’re banned from the biggest shopping center on the coast between Seattle and San Francisco. When a misunderstanding about how ‘that’ got into your pocket results in going home while your friends go to the mall, the only […]

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