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MOTHER’S DAY LADY REVIEW

May 12, 2024 by

After one miss on Mother’s Day with sick kids, I never missed another. During the phone call to tell her about missing she decided to tell me the nuts and bolts of my adventurous conception. The date, the name of the motel, the works. What mom doesn’t share that story? I’ve since stayed in the […]

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TUMOR REPORT: MIKE KELLY GETS THE COOKIE

May 11, 2022 by

A tumor report is what you get if you find a tumor. Mike Kelly found one the hard way: I was having trouble finding words, getting them out of my mouth and, to top it all off, I had an episode Sunday night — while we were watching “Call the Midwife” — where I could […]

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MOTHERS DAY STACK: ADD AN ANNIVERSARY AND NEW CUP

May 10, 2020 by

Mothers Day some years includes a wedding anniversary. But not every year. It’s always close on the calendar, real close. When it’s the deuce, and on a Sunday, it feels like a home run, and the important thing is touching all of the bases and sliding in home.

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MORE PORTLAND PLEASE

May 11, 2018 by

    In a snap shot of urban life, Portland looks best in large format. Walking the northwest streets of The Pearl a few hours before the curtain rose inside The Armory showed a city with connections between the dots, enough dots to create the web of destination we read about all over the country. […]

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A MAY WEDDING AND ONE LOUD, “I DO,” LATER

May 10, 2017 by

A May wedding in a Fir Cathedral and still in the woods thirty one years later. Doesn’t every married couple have a theme song? They should, and it doesn’t have to be the same song forever. Just make it a song older than your marriage. And no Beatles. This ought to be the common default:

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