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WHO CARES? YOU CAN LEARN WHO

May 6, 2022 by

Who cares about others is a big mystery most of the time, but peeling back the layers shows who’s who. Leaders, the people voted to lead, are elected to care. Isn’t that the idea? When a state like Kentucky puts up winners like U.S. Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, you might wonder if there’s […]

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MALE BONDING WITH FRAGILE EGOS

January 18, 2022 by

Male bonding isn’t about two guys becoming Blood Brothers. Let’s leave the knives out of it. No cuts and pressing wounds together with intense eye contact needed here. What is needed, though, is an element of trust. Not ‘trust’ with money or wives involved, but that other trust: Trust in doing what’s right. Lose that […]

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KNOWING MORE IS NOT THE PROBLEM

October 21, 2021 by

Knowing more at the end of a project is a jump start to the next one. Add that knowledge to the quest for life long learning and move on. Or, you can re-do the last project and apply new knowledge for a better result. That’s the choice, use education moving forward, or use it to […]

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EVERY DAY IS A NEW CHANCE FOR SMALL CHANGES

July 8, 2021 by

Every day has promises to keep with miles to go before we sleep. Sound familiar? It was a poem written by an old man named Robert Frost. When I first read ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ I chalked it up to a reflection on mortality. Reading it now, instead of a high school […]

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DESPERATE MEASURES: BOOMER ADVICE LIFE STUDY

November 21, 2020 by

Online complainers went to desperate measures over education. The through line was how boomers pushed college on their kids, among other piercing whines. Boomers created student debt, boomers ruined the housing market, boomers killed the jobs. With that reputation, how are boomers supposed to take any comfort in living long lives? The underlying message, the […]

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GRADUATE STUDENT: ALL I NEED TO KNOW? PROBABLY NOT

September 25, 2020 by

A graduate student goes to graduate school. If they finish, they get an advanced degree. Then the rest of us can look up to them. I do, don’t you? If not, why not? They deserve admiration for getting a Masters Degree for mastering their major. Still doubting the process? After reading this you’ll be an […]

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BOOMERPDX INTERVIEW: ONE VETERAN, ONE STUDENT, ONE PARENT

September 10, 2020 by

A faux-BoomerPDX interview works to paint a citizenship picture, a mosaic, by covering nervous subjects. For this edition it’s a veteran, a student, and a parent doing the work. And they have plenty to say. Take a read:

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EQUALITY EXPLAINED, OR “SO YOU THINK YOU’RE BETTER THAN ME, DO YA?”

September 7, 2020 by

Is equality ever explained in a rational way without some tag along. It’s “equality, but,” or, “equality when,” or some such qualifier, like only a conjunction conveys the ‘real truth.’ The problem is that equality explained with a qualifier is never equal. See, equality doesn’t need qualifiers, which is a reason to fight. But why […]

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DAD DEGREES LIKE COLLEGE DEGREE, BUT GRADED BY WIFE

July 8, 2020 by

Dad degrees? If you’re never heard of one, it’s because they don’t exist. Or do they? Don’t we grade parents like we do anything else? Start with the parents from childhood, your childhood, not your kid’s. I’ll go first.

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HOW TO DO SOCIAL REFORM SO IT WORKS

June 19, 2020 by

Social reform in the good old days hardly came up in conversations. Where I come from you could graduate from high school one day, go to work in the mill the next, and retire after a few decades of picking slivers. Or, go to college and learn how to tie a tie and rake in […]

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