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GROWING A STRONGER SOCIAL CIRCLE

Improve your social circle by leaving it all behind? Noooo.

That leaves too many unanswered questions.

Improve it by dropping out, focusing on making a bigger difference to yourself, and the questions answer themselves when you start looking different than you used to.

Instead of hearing ‘what happened to you’ it will be ‘I know what you’ve been up to.’

It happens once you get started on the ripped and shredded part of baby boomer life.

TIME WAS ON YOUR SIDE? WHAT HAPPENED

Time is on your side until that thing happens and the clock speeds up.

What thing?

You look in the mirror and see something different.

People stop saying, “Why, you don’t look your age.”

Or, you can’t do what used be easy.

But there’s more:

CANCER ESSAY GIVES DIRECTIONS TO ‘CANCERLAND’ AND BACK

The ties that bind us are few and far between. Instead of vines like Tarzan’s jungle swing time, they’re more like rope climb in junior high gym class. You get to the top and back down and collect your honor: another chance to climb to the rope top and touch the roof […]

Neck Cancer: Part of Oral, Head and Neck Cancer

OHNC, for oral, head and neck cancer sounds more like a government agency, as in “let’s meet at the OHNC building and go from there.” Except no one wants to go anywhere near OHNC any time. Speaking from direct experience, No One Wants To Go There. Any Time. But here we are. […]

10 BOOMER HEALTH NOTICES

What To Know, What To Ignore For Boomer Health. 1. You weigh too much. Extra weight stresses your knees and hips, your ankles and heart. Too much weight is a golden ticket for Type 2 Diabetes. Why not go away and mind your own business? 2. You’re too thin. Thin people have a greater threat […]

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OHS Shows ‘What They Did’

On a wicked cold December night a man lectured from the stage of the First Congregational Church in downtown Portland. James Swanson spoke to a full house, breaking down the Kennedy assassination moment by moment from his book ‘END OF DAYS, The Assassination of John F. Kennedy.’ Swanson followed the characters and events from fifty […]

TOO OLD TO RETIRE YOUNG?

Sixty Is The New Sixty In The Garden. The dream used to be make a million before you’re thirty and retire. You’ve seen these people, these young retirees? They travel, learn new languages, stay in shape. In other words they’re bored to death and need to keep finding challenges before their brains shut down completely. […]

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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DEADSPIN’S ‘WHY YOUR TEAM SUCKS’ IS NO WAY TO LEARN ABOUT ARIZONA

Arizona is a lovely place. A little warmer than most, but still worth a visit. Deadspin’s annual take down of every team in the NFL paints a different picture. It’s supposed to be funny and sports related, something the rest of the world finds confusing. Football isn’t a world sport like soccer, like basketball. […]

CATCH PORTLAND FEVER

Once you catch Portland Fever you’re doomed. Drug stores don’t advertise shots in case you catch Portland Fever. It’s not shingles, pneumonia, or the flu. On the other hand it’s not polio, malaria, of tuberculosis. While not fatal, if you do catch Portland Fever, your life is ruined. After a few years in Portland, maybe […]

BIRD WHISPERER OF TUALATIN NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE

Try and count the times you’ve learned something new only to find it something as old as time. And you didn’t learn anything new at all except for being wrong about what you thought you knew. Like birds. A bird whisperer visited the wildlife sanctuary just past the junkyard on Highway 99 before Sherwood […]

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Decision makers have one job: make the right decision.

Then another and another and another all day long.

It’s not for everybody, but everybody does it.

Making no decision is a decision?

Yes, but someone else will decide for you if it’s important enough.

Improve your social circle by leaving it all behind? Noooo.

That leaves too many unanswered questions.

Improve it by dropping out, focusing on making a bigger difference to yourself, and the questions answer themselves when you start looking different than you used to.

Instead of hearing ‘what happened to you’ it will be ‘I know what you’ve been up to.’

It happens once you get started on the ripped and shredded part of baby boomer life.

Time is on your side until that thing happens and the clock speeds up.

What thing?

You look in the mirror and see something different.

People stop saying, “Why, you don’t look your age.”

Or, you can’t do what used be easy.

But there’s more:

I asked Big Paul about missing Portland and he set me straight.

“It’s not missing.”

“It is if you can’t find it.”

“Then you need to look harder.”

Guitar night always starts the same: With a plan.

Plan to sound musical, nothing more, nothing less.

The plan is successful when two people play together the first time and agree they sounded good.

For at least ten seconds. Why ten seconds?

toughen up

boomer years

buckle up

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