Try reinventing friendship when your main guys move away. It happens, and it will happen more than once. You might move away, they might move away, then what? How do you break in new friends?
DISPLACED WORKERS ‘RETIRED’ FROM OLD JOBS
Displaced workers retire? From what? Ask a Coos Bay logger about it, or a Charleston commercial fisherman. What did they retire from? Getting jacked around by new ideas on sustainability.
AGING UP, NOT OUT
For aging up, you need a good role model. This is mine, my mother in law. She aged up well right until the end.
BOSS MAN: WHEN THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON STOPS CARING
Boss man is an old term by now. Like Ram Rod, as in, “Who’s the Ram Rod of this operation,” it’s time has come and gone, like Rowdy Yates. Still, Boss man has power, whether you like it or not, whether it resonates or not. But, what is a real Boss Man? They come in […]
BRAIN FOOD STARTS WITH GOOD HANDS
Ask around about cooking. If you do cook, ask a new friend about it. “Do you cook, too?” The answer will tell you more about the new friend than most any question. It’s a simple question, but the answers come in complicated flavors instead of “yes” or “no.”