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Hospitality matters most when you have high expectations, high hopes. If you saved up to stay someplace nice, you don’t want the memory soiled by anything, but especially something as simple as hospitality. What happens when hospitality royalty shine their own crowns? Share my shock when the Hospitality King out-means the Queen of Mean. Sweet […]

HOW NORMAL HISTORICAL TIMES GO ABNORMAL

Normal historical times are also called boring, stuck in a rut, and monotonous times. Too much normal can drive people crazy. Nothing ever changes? Or maybe you don’t understand how changes happen. Is everything too slooooooooow for your liking?

WEAK ACTOR ATTRACTS WEAK FANS TO FEEL STRONG

When a weak actor delivers a poor performance and still gets a standing ovation, something is wrong with the audience. After seeing enough live theater from third row center over the years, and watching movies and television like the next kook looking for something better, what exactly is an actor? An actor is, “a person […]

GOOD LIFE? HOW LIVING IT HONORS THE PAST

A good life, living a good life, is a worthy goal. Give it a try if you haven’t already. It sets an example for those still working out right from wrong. When you talk about living that life to people who ought to know right from wrong based on their age and experience, and they […]

ROSENBERG SUMMER OF 1953

The Rosenberg summer of 1953 didn’t end well, unless getting the chair in Sing Sing is on your schedule. They were the nice couple who were identified as spies funneling nuclear information to Russia. And they got electrocuted in prison for their effort, aka ‘the chair.’ Famous for being the only two executed for espionage […]

How Older Men Express Themselves When No One Is Around To Call BS

I knew older men who’d been everywhere, done everything, and could drive any car ever invented. They’d had every job from sales executive to mailman, to factory worker, to fighter pilot in three wars. Sometimes it was true. One of them said he was shot down and imprisoned on a Japanese held […]

PROFESSOR PUTIN WARMS UP FOR NEW PUPIL

Check your class schedule for Professor Putin in the PE Department. If you’ve ever met Russians, and I have, then you know they are not all fans of Professor Putin. Like Americans, Russians live within the laws and customs of their land, and their leader. They live with their history, we live with ours. […]

THE POSITIVE OPTIMIST POINT OF VIEW

On the darkest day look for light from The Positive Optimist. Bob Dylan told us we don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Turns out he wasn’t talking about the weather. You don’t need a weatherman, but you might want a translator to translate just what he means in Subterranean Homesick […]

HOSPITALITY MATTERS WITH THE HOSPITALITY KING

HOW NORMAL HISTORICAL TIMES GO ABNORMAL

WEAK ACTOR ATTRACTS WEAK FANS TO FEEL STRONG

GOOD LIFE? HOW LIVING IT HONORS THE PAST

ROSENBERG SUMMER OF 1953

How Older Men Express Themselves When No One Is Around To Call BS

PORTLAND OREGON BLOG MESSAGE TO YOUR WORLD

PROFESSOR PUTIN WARMS UP FOR NEW PUPIL

THE POSITIVE OPTIMIST POINT OF VIEW

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