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Life Long Learners Get Life Lesson Whether They Learn Or Not

Life Lessons start early for writers, then they spend years figuring it out enough to make a joke, a poem, a short story, novella, novel. Maybe more, like a groundbreaking memoir. If it’s worth learning, it’s worth writing about to drill it in. Like most children of my generation, baby boomers, I had it made […]

LIFE MARATHON ENDS EARLY FOR QUITTERS

You’ve heard it, I’ve heard it, we’ve both felt it. We’re tired and don’t know why, because a life marathon doesn’t have a finish line. Eating right, getting rest, and still tired. Is it a baby boomer lament, or just the way it is? Maybe it’s time to sit it out […]

LIFE QUESTIONS ANSWERED BY FLATTENED CHICKEN

To flatten a chicken use a pair of meat scissors and cut along one side of the backbone from the neck to the parson’s nose. Open up the bloody carcass and do the same on the other side. Use scissors instead of a knife to avoid the ‘blade slipped on a rib […]

LIFE STAGES WITH ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS

Instead of death and dying, use the same grief progression for living and life stages. It fits just as well, after all no one said life was easy. Sometimes living is a downer until we find something to live for. Life stages go beyond the chronographic scale, like the Terrible Twenties, the […]

Life Plan? What To Do When Life Moves On

If I read a book I turn the page. That’s how it works with book reading. Turn the page, then another and another until there’s no more pages. Call that story a page turner. A life plan when life moves on without you feels the same. Maybe you didn’t turn the page, but […]

MARK ZUCKERBERG BUILDS PURPOSE ON FACEBOOK WALL

For big life questions, Mark Zuckerberg has big answers. From his Harvard commencement address: Today I want to talk about purpose. But I’m not here to give you the standard commencement about finding your purpose. We’re millennials. We’ll try to do that instinctively. Instead, I’m here to tell you finding your purpose isn’t […]

LIFE CHANGE UP? SAW-WING BATTER, BATTER, BATTER

See a fat pitch down the middle and get hold of it. After that they all look like a fat pitch down the middle. All you need to do is stand in and swing for the fences T-ball style. That’s baseball, but how does it connect to your busy life?

OPIOID SOUNDS TOO PRETTY, CALL IT WHAT IT IS

Imagine it on BBC: “Oh, Countess, could you please have your man-servant retrieve the opioid?” You’ve heard it before: Too much of a good thing is a bad thing. Painkillers fall into that category. After they kill pain, they choke out the person you used to be. If you don’t stop the opioid, […]

LIVING UNDER A PORTLAND CHERRY BLOSSOM CANOPY FOR AN AFTERNOON

Portland cherry blossom between Burnside and Steel This side of a drone video the best place to see the whole run of the Portland cherry blossom parade is the on ramp off Front to the Steel Bridge. Just enough space and height to see the beautiful curve of nature. It looks deserted at […]

Health Writing? Start With Cancer And Drill Down

Life Long Learners Get Life Lesson Whether They Learn Or Not

LIFE MARATHON ENDS EARLY FOR QUITTERS

LIFE QUESTIONS ANSWERED BY FLATTENED CHICKEN

LIFE STAGES WITH ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS

Life Plan? What To Do When Life Moves On

MARK ZUCKERBERG BUILDS PURPOSE ON FACEBOOK WALL

LIFE CHANGE UP? SAW-WING BATTER, BATTER, BATTER

OPIOID SOUNDS TOO PRETTY, CALL IT WHAT IT IS

LIVING UNDER A PORTLAND CHERRY BLOSSOM CANOPY FOR AN AFTERNOON

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