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FLOWER CHILDREN? HECK YEAH FOR A HAPPY DAY

Heads up to all flower children: Swan Island Dahlias in Canby, Oregon are still in bloom.
If you missed the cherry blossoms, the roses in the Rose Garden in Washington Park, the iris bloom, sunflowers, and any others, this is your place.
It’s well groomed, thought out, and accessible.
No matter your age or disability, time spent here will make a happy day.
Here’s why:
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FRESH AIR MAKES PEOPLE PEOPLE HUNGRY?

If you’re looking for fresh air, and who isn’t, you’ll find it in abundance at your local nursery where acres of plants release oxygen.
It may not feel, or look, like an oxygen tent, and you’re not a patient, but it does wonders.
If it’s not the air that dazzles you, it’s the colorful blossoms, then the air.
What should a baby boomer do? First, consult the Moody Blues:

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DECISION MAKERS PICK A SIDE

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.
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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:
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BILL GATES KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HPV AND HIV?

    Bill Gates is not a doctor. Nor is he a college graduate. So how is it he’s smart enough to know the difference between HIV and HPV?   This is a man smart enough to give medical advice to the most powerful man in the world, leader of the Free World, President Donald […]

Self Glossing Portland Writer Gives Cancer Warning

  “Warning? We don’t need no cancer warning,” said everyone who’s never followed directions even once.   With cancer warnings around every corner, every speck of asbestos in the ceiling, breath of air, drink of water, it gets wearing to the point of being normal.   More people with cancer? More young people? More millennials, […]

BOOMER HEALTH RISK: UNINTENTIONAL FALL

Ask Amy gives her take on baby boomers’ unintentional fall. Her numbers are big on the unintentional fall. Ask Amy doesn’t want us to take a dive. 25,000 deaths, over two million emergency room visits, all due to an unintentional fall. The Center for Disease Control even has a page, as if an unintentional fall […]

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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 […]

BOOMERPDX ‘TRUE OR FALSE’ ON FOOTBALL

Any excuse to avoid something is good enough at some ages. So is any reason to do something. Which has the stronger pull? The following are a series of questions to ask yourself about high school football. Though they are true or false in nature, there is no right or wrong. You will be graded […]

PROPERTY OWNER FROM THE OTHER SIDE

    What to expect from the property owner process that never ends, changes in the middle, and no light the end of the property owner tunnel to hell.   From behind the seductive eyes of a city’s economic development officer:   I see the likes of you come in here all day, every day. […]

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Travel Education Fatigue Makes Well Rounded Snob

  The first time I heard an acquaintance talk about travel education I was impressed as hell. They made me want to do it, to go where they’d been. Then I heard it again, and again. And again. Has this happened to you, travel education fatigue? You need to fight through it.

6 STEPS OF EUROPEAN TRAVEL AFTER THE FIRST STEP

  Step One: Admit you’ve been bored to death since your last trip.   You miss making connections, new train stations, airports. The miracle of being on time. Like a caged animal, your travel bug paces. Every Sunday it rattles the gate. That’s when Rick Steves shows up. With a dish. Travel bugs feast on […]

PDX BRIDGES NEW & OLD

The new pedestrian bridge brings new views of Portland. The view of the freeway looking south. To find it from I-5 north, take the Ross Island Bridge exit and snake around. Park your car before you make the right turn to the Ross Island ramp and you can’t miss it.           […]

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