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PORTLAND TAPROOMS: NINE COMMANDMENTS

June 29, 2016 by

A cry for beer opened Portland taprooms, but suburban taprooms like Tigard’s Tapphoria make our day. An ocean of new beer flooded Oregon in the 1980’s. The original Portland Brewing next to the old Acapulco’s Gold on NW 14th and Flanders was enough to make beer lovers cry. Then things changed when small batch beer […]

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FACEBOOK FRIENDS: A WHO’S WHO

June 23, 2016 by

All Facebook friends are not created equal. Vanity Fair loves Facebook. Who doesn’t? Can a billion people a day be wrong? Or maybe they’re cuddling up to Mark Zuckerberg, The Man, The Face, of Facebook. Understandable if they are. He is one of the big biggies of the online world. His is the biggest face […]

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HOW TO GET UP AND GO

June 21, 2016 by

When you feel down, get up and go. Make the call. The best way to beat a down day is to get up and go. It may not change anything, how you feel, where you are, but just knowing you can do it, that you can get up and go, changes things. Call it a […]

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MAKING NEW FRIENDS

June 10, 2016 by

Is it harder for aging baby boomers to make new friends? When the cycle of life leaves you lonely, it feels like everyone else is on the bicycle of life and you’ve got a flat. If that’s you, get moving. Walk it out. But to where? How do you make new friends? Where do you […]

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GOOD ENOUGH YET?

June 3, 2016 by

When ‘getting over it’ isn’t good enough. It all sounds the same. Get over it. Move on. Turn the page. Maybe you say it to yourself, maybe you hear it from others. If it’s others giving the push, you know what they’re really saying? You’re a whiner. In blogger land it’s whining about SEO, traffic, […]

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PREPARE FOR A DOCTOR VISIT

June 2, 2016 by

Do you get in shape for your doctor visit? For too many men it takes an force of nature to schedule a doctor visit. Women, not so much. That force of nature is called a wife after she makes an appointment two months away. She knows you’ll go; you know you’ll go. How you show […]

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10 REASONS FOR BOOMER ISOLATION SHAME

May 23, 2016 by

More often than not, boomer isolation goes bad. Who of your friends would you vote for as Most Likely To Be A Hermit? Loosing touch with people doesn’t mean they’ve taken to boomer isolation. If you wonder, give them a call at the last number you have for them and see who answers. If they […]

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BABY BOOMER ANTHOLOGY, A LIFE IN COMMON

May 20, 2016 by

Every family has a man with so much backbone you’d think he has two of them. Such a man might have been injured on the job and took up another line of work. Maybe that man was a logger who broke his back in the woods and took up ranching. His biggest regret was missing […]

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WILWRITE 1, TRAIL BLAZERS 0

May 4, 2016 by

Picking two winners on the same night? Good luck with that. Tuesday night was Willamette Writer, WilWrite Night, for WordPress at Portland’s Old Church, and Game 2 in the NBA playoffs in California. Which one to focus on? With time for one or the other, which one to choose: a power point presentation on WordPress, […]

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PIANO PLAYER POUNDS PORTLAND

May 1, 2016 by

The Lure Of The Piano Player. My Amazing Mother in Law, or AMIL, will be 90 and she’s active by anyone’s standards, not just for 90. But even she has an off day. One of her off days came the same time as her and my wife’s stage night out at Portland’s Gerding Theater. Would […]

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