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COUNTING YEARS, ADDING TIME

Counting years, birthdays, anniversaries, is easy math even for non-math people.
One day you’re logging miles and running races and getting a new t-shirt.
The world is fresh and waiting for what you have to offer so do your best to show up.
Then the race changes, but the task is the same: show up and do your best.

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CONNECTING DOTS FOR A BIGGER PICTURE

When freedom is just through those two doors you’d better start connecting dots for a plan to get there.
That’s if you want to go, if you want to leave the cozy warmth of where you are.
Cozy warmth where you are? Are you cozy? Of course you are, and so is everyone you know.
America is all about cozy warmth, isn’t it?

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NICE THINGS. WHY NOT US?

If you want nice things, and who doesn’t, keep a sharp eye out on what’s around you.
An evening stroll under the crescent moon?
If that’s not nice, I don’t know what is.
For this you don’t haveto go to Paris, or Portland, but you do have to go outside.
Can you do it? I think you can.
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WIFE WALKING FOR HEALTH AND FITNESS

I see couples walking, wife walking, the woman in front, the man a few steps back.
You can tell it’s wife walking when the woman goes into a shop and the man finds a seat outside and stares at his phone.
My wife and I walked past two places that looked interesting, though not to both of us.
They weren’t shopping destinations, but . . .
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BRAVE BLOGGER? HOW BRAVE

It’s hard to explain bravery, as in a brave blogger, to a little girl when you scream like a little girl at the same things they scream about.
Mouse? EEEEEK.
Rat? EEEEEEEEK.
Spider? Run for it.
It started out so normal.

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TRAUMA NATION AMERICA IN 10 POINTS

Is America The Leader In The Race To The Top Of Trauma? 10 Reasons For Yes On Trauma Nation America. Recent research shows DNA passes down trauma markers from parents to kids. That means if a father suffers a traumatic event his DNA adapts and gets installed in his children. It could be a good […]

Time And The Baby Boomer Naturopath

Diet And Exercise In The Medicine Cabinet. When eating right and working out hits the news as good medicine you know something happened. Writer Alexandra Sifferlin begins her healthland.time.com article, Just Say No: When It Makes Sense Not to Take Your Medicine, with these words: “It sounds like something a quack would support, but it’s true.”

HEALTHCARE VOTE FOR CANCER COURAGE, CANCER COWARD

What are the chances of any U.S. Senator feeling the pain of cancer, or any other pre-existing condition? John McCain is front and center with a brain tumor. Let’s watch his healthcare vote to decide if the rest of America deserves the same medical attention as a U.S. Senator. This is the Navy flier who […]

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D-DAY PRACTICE: DIEPPE, SLAPTON SANDS

History of D-Day practice neither grand or glorious. The real D-Day turned the tide in World War Two, but the two D-Day practice events left more dead than the real D-Day. Through those deaths communications improved. Coordination improved. And suppressing news improved. No one wanted it out that commanders had screwed up a D-Day practice […]

Historical Debris: A Record Of Time

    Most museums have a bar they set for accepting historical debris, artifacts, one of a kind deals, and whatever an important person touched or signed.   Paul Revere silver, the last breath of Thomas Edison, the Magna Carta? No one is making any more of that stuff, so that’s a bar too high. […]

FOR THE LADIES ON MEMORIAL DAY

Men get most of the attention on military holidays even it’s not Memorial Day For Men, or Male Veteran’s Day. Those days include women, but mostly as a second thought, and it’s military women. Please remember the men and women who died in uniform. They’ve earned our respect from the Civil War to Afghanistan. Young […]

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BABY BOOMER MISSION CREEP: AIR TRAVEL

You Know How To Tell Time, So Does The Airport. Air travel asks one thing: Can you be on time? Successful travel is that easy, and that complicated. After an extended road trip in a rental car you don’t want to miss the plane home. Who knows what happens if you miss that flight, but […]

Lighten Up While You Still Can

    When The Eagles sing Take It Easy, the line that stands out for me is, ‘Lighten up while you still can.’ It’s the same when Jackson Browne and James Taylor sing it.   Baby boomers know how hard it is to lighten up better than anyone. Lighting up too, but that’s another post. […]

AT THE TRIMET BUS STOP, pt 2

One part of weird Portland, the Keep Portland Weird part, is SantaCon near a TriMet bus stop. If you’re a fan of SantaCon and like dressing up in Santa gear and bar crawling Portland, then you’ve seen this. If you’ve never dressed been a Santa, this is your chance. Drinking beer with hundreds of Santas […]

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