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VALIDATED LIFE? GET YOUR TICKET STAMPED EARLY

August 18, 2022 by

A validated life, like a validated parking garage ticket, means freedom. Except the validated parking ticket is more direct. Put the card in the slot, the bar rises, you drive away. What constitutes a validated life that raises the bar to escape the couch you’ve been parked on?

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LIFE MOMENTS FOR NORMAL MEN

August 16, 2022 by

Life moments come when you least expect them. When things work out better than planned? Life moment right there. Things work out worse than planned? What do you call that?

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SPENDING TIME LIKE YOU’LL NEVER GET OLD?

June 27, 2022 by

Spending time together in the right places make the best memories. The guys in the image are two brothers I follow on twitter. One is a sports talk guy, the other is a regular guest. They go beyond sports with their life lesson takes including recipes, medical advice, and their brand of man-knowledge. The tweet […]

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TIME TRAVEL WITH BULLIES BEING BULLIES

June 25, 2022 by

Time travel with me back fifty years. Here’s why: Fifty years ago I was a seventeen year old student following the stream from Miss Spooner’s kindergarten classes at Roosevelt to graduating on the football field where my sports heroes played. It was a good run.

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GUN AWARENESS PROTEST PRACTICE

May 27, 2022 by

Can gun awareness follow the Occupy Portland campers? Some there looked old enough for the ’60s protests, which means one thing: Boomer Infiltration. Boomerpdx asks if the 60’s people are doing enough for the greater good?

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AGING MUSIC FOR COUPLES TO GROW OLD BY

May 23, 2022 by

I first heard aging music from the Beatles. When I’m Sixty-Four came out when I was thirteen. Why would a young band contemplate being 64 years old? It seemed weird. Until I turned sixty-four.

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OREGON PRIMARY LISTENING FOR MILLENNIAL ROAR

May 16, 2022 by

Tuesday is election day for the Oregon Primary. But you already knew that. No? Now you do. Out here in the real west, not some landlocked desert version of ‘out west’ in states like Idaho, or Utah, or Arizona, we drag ourselves to the table, pick up a black or blue ink pen, open the […]

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RETIREMENT REDUCTION: TO TRASH OR NOT TO TRASH

May 12, 2022 by

Retirement Reduction is the new code for dumping stuff. You’ve heard it, I’ve heard it: “Baby boomers need to downsize and stop hoarding.” Has anyone figured out what to toss and what to keep? Discover is here to help, or try to help. It’s as funny as it is helpful.

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MAN JUNK FOR THE HE-MAN

May 10, 2022 by

Man junk is a taboo topic to bring up. Especially broken junk. Vasectomy? Same thing. It cuts a little too close to home. HPV neck cancer? Hush your mouth. Or not. Yesterday I wrote about vasectomy, which some men consider less than manly. Today, let’s take it a little further.

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ADDITIONAL PROOF? HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH

May 8, 2022 by

Additional proof is what’s needed to make an official arrest. Can we all agree on that? No one wants a guilty conviction based on one finger pointer. So, what is additional proof?

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