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END PRODUCT IS WHAT PEOPLE CARE ABOUT, NOT PRACTICE

‘End Product’ is another way of saying, “What have you done lately?”

We pay to go to concerts, games, and races.

We don’t pay to go to practice rooms, weight rooms, or interval track training, the stuff done before the end product.

Buy a ticket for an event and you expect a competent performance?

Sounds reasonable to me.

HISTORICAL ACCURACY? IMPORTANT, OR NOT

I’m a fan of historical accuracy, of a story that stands up to scrutiny not opinion,

My feeling is that the people involved in historical events deserve the decency of applied history.

How to apply history?

It’s all about the sources.

OPENING NIGHT AT THE ROSE GARDEN

I watched the Rose Garden, home to your Portland Trail Blazers, rise up on the Northeast bank of the mighty Willamette River.

From opening night until now it’s been . . . thirty-one years?

As long as the Memorial Coliseum stands, the Rose Garden will always be the new kid on the block.

And now it’s old and tired?

Cancer Message Still In The Merck Ad Mess

Call me a late bloomer. Maybe you are too? My discoveries and enthusiasm come after most things have moved on. But it still counts for something. At least that’s what I tell myself. I’m telling you, too, it still counts, you still count. I’m late to see the parent shaming ad for hpv16 […]

YOU HAVE FEELINGS? DO THEY SAY HAPPY?

HOW TO TELL IF YOU’RE HAPPY You’ve heard it before, whether you’re ten, thirty-four, or seventy-four years old. Balance. Say it like they said, “Plastic,” in The Graduate. Life, or a good life, depends on balance. Think moderation. Most of the time you hear this and nod and agree like the fat man who […]

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 […]

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FAILING MEMORIES, ENHANCED THOUGHT, BOOMER BRAIN

Failing memories include a list of golden moments that show up online more often than it should. They’re supposed to invoke a better time, but for the wrong reasons. Someone needs to set it straight, but who? Could be you if you saw the television shows first hand, been alive for events, and remember. The […]

AVOID ANNIVERSARY MOVIES

A Divorce Downer Of Old Movies. The plan: A nice wedding anniversary with the family followed by a weekend at the same beach you went to on your honeymoon. If anniversaries are a tradition, so is the beach trip. You book your favorite cabin, the one with unobstructed view of the ocean…from the bathroom. Pack […]

BABY BOOMER ANTHOLOGY, A LIFE IN COMMON

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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Baby Boomer Travel, pt 1

Plan Ahead Or Suffer. Once you step out your front door the machinery kicks into gear. It’s either too late to change plans, or you don’t want to be the one changing. Be a good sport. Baby boomers know how to be good sports. We also know how to whine so don’t be alarmed when […]

BEST SELF HELP? DRIVE PORTLAND TO LAKE TAHOE

If you need the best self help run in America, take a drive I hear you asking now, “But, Dave, where do we go?” Not Europe. Save that for family and get blamed for museum and cathedral nightmares. For this episode of Get Lost, you only need two words: Lake. Tahoe. Or three words: […]

Five Miles From Tigard Equals Yellowstone?

Looked for wildlife far and wide from Idaho to Wyoming to Montana and Washington. Then I looked near Tigard in the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge five miles from home in Oregon. There was more wildlife in one place than there was in four states. Go Tigard, Go.

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‘End Product’ is another way of saying, “What have you done lately?”

We pay to go to concerts, games, and races.

We don’t pay to go to practice rooms, weight rooms, or interval track training, the stuff done before the end product.

Buy a ticket for an event and you expect a competent performance?

Sounds reasonable to me.

I’m a fan of historical accuracy, of a story that stands up to scrutiny not opinion,

My feeling is that the people involved in historical events deserve the decency of applied history.

How to apply history?

It’s all about the sources.

Ten years ago I got the cancer call.

Me: Hello.

Doc: Are you sitting down?

Me: Yes. (I was in the bathroom.)

Doc: The tests came back. You have cancer.

Me: That’s not good.

I watched the Rose Garden, home to your Portland Trail Blazers, rise up on the Northeast bank of the mighty Willamette River.

From opening night until now it’s been . . . thirty-one years?

As long as the Memorial Coliseum stands, the Rose Garden will always be the new kid on the block.

And now it’s old and tired?

Remember the guy who took shooting pool to a whole ‘nother level?

Who knew where to find a good table and fifty cent beers?

That was Rob Brown in Eugene when we went to UofO.

While he had a drive to succeed, he knew how to take a break.

In that sense he was a host who understood how to pull people together.

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