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ONE PORTLAND JOURNEY: MINE

September 4, 2026 by Leave a Comment

I got off the bus at the end of my Portland journey, only to begin the real deal. This is where I lived after breaking up. My usual move after a break up was moving to bigger and better. For instance, I broke up in Delaware and moved to Brooklyn, NY. Here, I broke up […]

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GOLDEN SILENCE? WHAT’S THAT ALL ABOUT

January 20, 2026 by

I’ve experienced golden silence? Nooooo. But I’ve come close. Like the time I woke up in a tent while spending the night on a mountain I’d climbed. So quiet, at first, then the sniffing sound. Since it was Alaska, it may have been a bear. I was silent.

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NEW BEGINNING? HERE’S WHERE YOU START

April 8, 2024 by

Most of us have had a new beginning at least once? Does that sound right? “With this high school diploma the world is your oyster,” was a saying. Not, “The world is your clam,” but why quibble. That changed over the years with:

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ROLLING STONE AND PLAYBOY BOTH DIED IN 1980. WHO NOTICED?

November 20, 2017 by

  Growing up in the shadow of the sixties, I turned sixteen in 1970, two magazines ruled the media rack: Rolling Stone and Playboy.   Ten years later in 1980 two icons from each were murdered. John Lennon and Dorothy Stratten were both shot down in tragic style.   Rolling Stone and Playboy did a […]

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MUSIC MATTERS BECAUSE

August 2, 2015 by

Something Happens To Our Brain When Music Matters. I just watched Bruce Springsteen onstage with Bono and U2 in New York. If feels like such a happy moment between those guys standing in middle of the greatest city in the world and singing. Isn’t that how it’s supposed to work when we hear our favorites? […]

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