DAVIDPDX • A REGAL OREGON BLOG

TAUGHT IN SCHOOL, LEARNED AT HOME

Where I come from what I learned in school, what I was taught in school, was echoed at home.

What I learned at home made me a better student.

Can I blame my parents that I wasn’t the valedictorian? Or salutatorian?

Or top half of my class? Maybe.

I just asked my wife, “What’s the most important thing you learned in school?”

(Since she’s soon to retire she’ll have time to appear here.)

DIFFERENT SOLDIERS? HOW DIFFERENT

The men in uniform during WWII were different soldiers, different kind of people.

The Axis powers carried an extreme devotion to duty, an extreme devotion to their emperor, and an extreme devotion to cruelty over helpless victims.

By the way, this isn’t new, not breaking news, but a reminder for short-memoried morons who ought to know better.

All of the extreme devotion of the German and Japanese armies ended with their defeat?

What exactly ended?

RECLAIMING MY TIME ON SOUTHERN OREGON COLLEGE SIXTY-FIVE YEARS LATER

Southern Oregon College Graduating Class of 1960: My dad.

He transferred after two years at Central Oregon Community College in Bend.

It was a well used path to the first college degree in his family.

He was thirty years old, an old 30.

Back then thirty was older, fifty was a grandparent. Hit sixty and you’re probably dead a few years.

Southern Oregon College changed his life. And, I’d like to say, since davidpdx strives to honor higher education, it changed my life too, although five year old me was still only five years old.

RETIREMENT GYM GUY IN EVERYONES FUTURE

Meet retirement gym guy, the man who’s been everywhere, done everything, driven every kind of car made, and needs you to know all about it.

They know what you should do, when you should do it, and where.

With emergency warning levels, you’ll learn about their most recent illness, surgery, and recovery.

It could be going better, they say, but it is what it is.

Miranda Dating Rights For The New Era Of Rising STD

Have you ever asked someone out on a date? Probably. Did you read them the ‘Dating Rights’ questions? Going out on a limb here with probably not. Why would you?

GYM RAT CONFESSIONS: FEAR DRIVEN EXERCISE

Every fitness center, every last one, from 24Hour, to LA Fitness, to Curves, has a mayor. They also have city councilmen/women, department heads, and gym rats. The gym mayor checks their constituency. They spot, they talk. They walk from machine to machine. Gym councilmen / women spread an array of weights and surgical […]

The Best Medicine Not In The Cabinet

When the New York Times posts on Facebook you know it’s an important subject. Newspapers in the digital age can’t afford to waste print. Is it war in the Middle East? Famine in Africa? Economic doom in America? Is sweating good for you? It’s all of the above, but the last one is tricky.

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Prince in Portland, Prince Forever

Laying along East Burnside, Prince looked comfortable. We were going to a show at the Doug Fir Lounge and there he was. It took me back to the Tacoma Dome after seeing Purple Rain when it first came out. Who was Prince? Only the anti-Michael Jackson, and back then it seemed a good […]

BOOMERPDX ARCHIVE, c. 1983

1-10-83 (Monday) A former Oregon governor died last Saturday. Tom McCall breathed his last in the hospital up the street. Good Samaritan. A student nurse in my building cared for him at the end. She said he’s a great guy. Everyone says it. He seems like someone you’d like to know. Oregon history’s Tom Vaughan […]

FATHERS DAY, LIKE A BIRTHDAY BUT NOT A WEEK LONG

Ten years later our sister showed up for family pictures. Until then it was all boys. Fathers of an all boy family have problems with their Boys Club. If the boys grow up to be bad men, it’s on the them. Good men? Lucky they had such a good mom. Does that sound right? A […]

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OVER-POPULATED PORTLAND? STOP COMPLAINING

Just blame the Doug Fir Lounge, Tevor Sensor, and The Family Crest. Feeling better? You will. In a furnace showcase for a venue ten times the size, The Family Crest torched East Burnside from the Doug Fir Lounge. They added a new twist to performance art in their show. Trombone, cello, violin, and […]

WONDERS OF WIFE WORDS (WWOW)

A Boomer Husband Interpretation. A Zen retreat sits near the base of Thunder Mountain. The area of peace and reflection draws people from around the world. It seems Sedona is a world magnet for healing and renewal. If you chose a day for peace and harmony, this is the place. My wife and I found […]

MEMORY CUE, EVIDENCE FROM ANOTHER LIFETIME

How long ago was 1979? The Brooklyn Union Gas Company makes the call. How often do you run across things, not your things, that remind you of a different life? Then it’s your stuff and you don’t remember.

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Where I come from what I learned in school, what I was taught in school, was echoed at home.

What I learned at home made me a better student.

Can I blame my parents that I wasn’t the valedictorian? Or salutatorian?

Or top half of my class? Maybe.

I just asked my wife, “What’s the most important thing you learned in school?”

(Since she’s soon to retire she’ll have time to appear here.)

The men in uniform during WWII were different soldiers, different kind of people.

The Axis powers carried an extreme devotion to duty, an extreme devotion to their emperor, and an extreme devotion to cruelty over helpless victims.

By the way, this isn’t new, not breaking news, but a reminder for short-memoried morons who ought to know better.

All of the extreme devotion of the German and Japanese armies ended with their defeat?

What exactly ended?

Who else needs a cry towel? Everyone.

Who admits it? Not everyone.

The problem is not everyone had a cry towel when it counted.

Like when they were a baby.

You can see it in people who think of kids as just another mouth to feed.

Instead of the biggest thing ever, that baby found themselves born into a convenient file.

Southern Oregon College Graduating Class of 1960: My dad.

He transferred after two years at Central Oregon Community College in Bend.

It was a well used path to the first college degree in his family.

He was thirty years old, an old 30.

Back then thirty was older, fifty was a grandparent. Hit sixty and you’re probably dead a few years.

Southern Oregon College changed his life. And, I’d like to say, since davidpdx strives to honor higher education, it changed my life too, although five year old me was still only five years old.

Meet retirement gym guy, the man who’s been everywhere, done everything, driven every kind of car made, and needs you to know all about it.

They know what you should do, when you should do it, and where.

With emergency warning levels, you’ll learn about their most recent illness, surgery, and recovery.

It could be going better, they say, but it is what it is.

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