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SENIOR WRITER FOR BOOMERPDX

December 4, 2025 by

Senior writer is an inside joke, senior moment not so much. That’s the moment you do something and get asked, “Why did you do that?” And you don’t have an answer. Or the answer you give doesn’t make sense. Even to you. That’s when you make up a whole universe to cover your slip, or […]

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MAKING TIME LAST WITH OVER DAVE

May 6, 2025 by

Making time for someone is one of the nicest things you can do. You hear about it from people who say they’d like more time with one particular person. Except that person is usually dead. Then what? Plan B.

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BORDER LIFE WITH BORDER TAX

April 17, 2025 by

The words ‘border life’, living on the border, goes more than one way. My closest borders are my city limits, then the county line, state line, and one state up, an international border. I like seeing the border signs, Welcome To Oregon, but other than that, what are these borders but tax districts. City tax, […]

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WONDER WHY NO ONE ASKS, “WHERE ARE THEY NOW?”

August 21, 2020 by

Who doesn’t wonder about people from different parts of life and wonder why they left, or why you left? Something happened. If it wasn’t something that required therapy or the law, an occasional ‘wonder why’ happens. And it’s okay. Yeah, I feel better, too.

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WHY SMALL TOWN PEOPLE MATTER

April 10, 2018 by

    Lost in the hyper speed of modern life on a 1.4 terabit internet connection is the human pace of life. Call it small town life for small town people, but remember we’re all small town people once you peel off the layers of sophistication.   Jet setters once clamored for seats on the […]

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RULES TO NOMINATE A NOBEL PRIZE FOR BLOGGERS

October 15, 2016 by

After Dylan it’s coming, a Nobel Prize for bloggers. If the times they are a changing, don’t get in the way, and the best change I can see is a Nobel Prize for bloggers. You’ve got your novelists, poets, playwrites, all deserving honor. Add blogger to the list, but with a few distinctions. Like no […]

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