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CANCER STORIES: FEEDING PUBLIC FEAR AND PRIVATE WOE

December 1, 2017 by

Things you’ll never know until you get cancer, any cancer:   You’ll either be an object of sympathy, or an antenna of sympathy. Or both.   “Keep up the fight,” or, “You’re a fighter,” or “You look like you’ve got this thing whipped.”   That’s what I heard after running Hood To Coast at 49 […]

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BOOMER IN AWESOMEVILLE

April 19, 2016 by

Ode to a departed man of the world, a Boomer in Awesomeville.   Some people you save for the long haul, guys you know will be around, you’ll catch up with them later with they pass through town.   They never change, you can count on that, from their Romeo slippers to their old ball […]

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C.B. BERNARD CHASES ALASKA

November 28, 2015 by

Alaska and C.B. Bernard sing for the Last Frontier. And you. When the wild calls your name, where do you go? If you’re a writer like Cheryl Strayed you hit the Pacific Coast Trail and write a book called Wild. Not the sort of wild you have in mind? Most people understand wild as a […]

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