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FAKE NEWS SHARED BY BABY BOOMERS, BUT WHY?

For online fans of social media there’s a drumbeat across many platforms saying the same thing: Baby boomers share more fake news than any other demographic. The usual cutoff age is sixty five, so I’ve got another year before I hit that wall. If you are a boomer I’ve got a question: Do […]

Carrying America’s Dirty Laundry, Vote Nov. 6, 2018

Baby Boomers and Millennials get accused of so many things. Lazy parents produced entitled kids? You’ve heard that one? Millennials are too self absorbed to vote on Nov. 6, 2018? That’s been going around, too. The good news is not all Boomers are lousy parents and not all Millennials are spoiled little shits. […]

Portland Bird Flip To The Rest Of You

The Portland bird is one thing, the Portland bird flip a whole ‘nother thing. If it’s not this, it’s that for Portland. Close to the mountains, close to the beach, and if the pace of new building is any indicator, close to the new neighbors. Like any city over a certain […]

Dylan Song For 2018 Mid-Term Elections

Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don’t stand in the doorway Don’t block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There’s a battle outside And it is ragin’. It’ll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin’.

Life Long Learners Get Life Lesson Whether They Learn Or Not

Life Lessons start early for writers, then they spend years figuring it out enough to make a joke, a poem, a short story, novella, novel. Maybe more, like a groundbreaking memoir. If it’s worth learning, it’s worth writing about to drill it in. Like most children of my generation, baby boomers, I had it made […]

World’s Factory: China Fills Big Box America To The Brim

The world’s factory, otherwise known as China, fills big box America from Costco to Target to Walmart. From Home Depot to Lowe’s the world’s factory supplies America with the suburban necessities. If it’s electronic components, or sporty textiles, or steel, look for the Made in China tag. You won’t have to look […]

MEMOIR BLOGGER TALKS TO WRITER, GETS LOST

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 […]

CANCER RESEARCH THROUGH BETTER BEER

“I’m buying you a beer,” G said. “That’s awfully nice, but you don’t have to,” I said. “It’s that one,” he said. “Which one?” I asked. “At the bottom of the Daily Specials.” I looked at the beer menu and didn’t see it. “Where are the specials?” […]

DEAR SASQUATCH! IT DISAPPEARED, BUT I GOT THE PICS

How can this be the end of Sasquatch!? It was my first time and now it’s over? My impression? I should have signed up earlier, but probably not last year. People camping near us gave a round up of great times. It was their fifth Sasquatch!

Carrying America’s Dirty Laundry, Vote Nov. 6, 2018

Portland Bird Flip To The Rest Of You

Dylan Song For 2018 Mid-Term Elections

Life Long Learners Get Life Lesson Whether They Learn Or Not

Dear Millennial Voters, All Of You, From Air And Water

World’s Factory: China Fills Big Box America To The Brim

MEMOIR BLOGGER TALKS TO WRITER, GETS LOST

CANCER RESEARCH THROUGH BETTER BEER

DEAR SASQUATCH! IT DISAPPEARED, BUT I GOT THE PICS

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