SIXTY @ SIXTY IN THREE PARTS
1. Know your roots. Remember where you came from. Turning 60 means you’ve met lots of people. You’ve had time to meet people; if you haven’t, get started. More than once you’ve had someone give this...
View ArticleONE LOVE STORY
It Started Like Love Story, Then Everyone Said They Were Sorry. A nice man and nice lady met and became a nice couple. When they got married they were nice newly weds. They were nice parents when they...
View ArticleSIXTY @ SIXTY IN THREE PARTS
1. Know your roots. Remember where you came from. Turning 60 means you’ve met lots of people. You’ve had time to meet people; if you haven’t, get started. More than once you’ve had someone give this...
View ArticleONE LOVE STORY
It Started Like Love Story, Then Everyone Said They Were Sorry. A nice man and nice lady met and became a nice couple. When they got married they were nice newly weds. They were nice parents when they...
View ArticleTWO MARRIED GUYS MAP DATE LIFE
What else would two married guys do? The beauty of public transportation comes with the people you meet. Two old men waited at a Portland bus stop. Late afternoon drizzle fell on the city through...
View ArticleA MAY WEDDING AND ONE LOUD, “I DO,” LATER
A May wedding in a Fir Cathedral and still in the woods thirty one years later. Doesn’t every married couple have a theme song? They should, and it doesn’t have to be the same song forever. Just make...
View ArticleMan Married At Age Thirty One Sees Image Thirty One Years Later
The saying ‘Like a deer in the headlights’ must have been coined at a wedding. My wedding. Things changed that day. We’re going through a phase, call it the non-hoarding phase, and this came up...
View ArticlePortland Welcome Mat: How To Walk Around Downtown Portland
One of the great things about sponsoring foreign exchange students after your own kids have been out of college for years is rolling out the welcome mat. The Portland welcome mat. And dragging...
View ArticleFAMILY TIES OVERCOME SOME THINGS, NOT OTHERS
Everyday I wake up I see a little gold tree with small family portraits hanging from the bare branches. Maybe you’ve got one that looks like the top image? That’s not mine. Mine used to be on my...
View ArticleENOUGH LEADERSHIP? WHEN IS ENOUGH ENOUGH?
Talk to any reliable construction contractor about when enough is enough and they say two things: It’s enough when you run out of money to do more. And it’s enough when you run out of time and need...
View ArticleMARRIAGE HEALTH: 5 KEYS TO LASTING HAPPINESS
1. Share Marriage Health Goals Husband: Stay married. Wife: Staying married. A marriage health goal of staying married may sound redundant, but not when so many marriages end early. Married couples...
View ArticleHOW TO ‘GROW UP AND GET OVER IT’
There are people and places that will hurt your feelings. Since my feelings have been hurt and I learned to grow up and get over it, I will share how that works. Learning to grow up isn’t something...
View ArticleTIME MOVES ON WITH A DEGREE OF SADNESS
Time moves on when you see is a collection of kid bikes, the same collection Toys R Us sold. The same bikes the rich kids rode, the hand-me-down bikes, and the bikes kids rode into teen hood. Lots of...
View ArticleBOOMER PARENTS: HOW KIDS LEAVE A MARK
A peppy forty-nine year old single man was feeling down, feeling the holiday blues. I did what boomer parents do, I butted in; it’s an auto-response. He said he lived too far away from relatives to...
View ArticleSTORY TIME STORY WITH DAVE, OR IS IT DAVID
Story time begins with tradition. What tradition, you ask? All good stories begin the same. They might still be good stories, but not classic Story Time. Once Upon A Time: A baby came into the world in...
View ArticleSADNESS AND THE ONLY CHILD ALONE ON THEIR DAY
The Smothers Brothers comedy team had a routine that fit every family, except only child families, when one said to the other, “Mom always liked you best.” Every brother or sister who hasn’t said that...
View ArticleSTRONGER TOGETHER IS THE GOAL
The team is always stronger together, stronger than the separate parts. If a superstar has a bad day on a good team, they still have a chance to win because the group can carry the load. The same idea...
View ArticleMARRIED MAN: TIME TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
A married man has one job above all others, and that’s to protect the institution of marriage. Otherwise, why bother jumping through the hoops to get married? “But Dave,” you ask, “how do I protect the...
View ArticleFAMILY MAN? WHO WERE YOU BEFORE THAT
Every man is a family man until it’s time to do what family men do. “But, Dave, what do family men do?” I’ll answer before you ask, because you were going to. First, a family man needs to have a family...
View ArticleMARRIED PEOPLE REVIEW: TRICK QUESTIONS OR NEW COMMITTMENTS
Five guys were going over the rules of married people with a past. The question was what to disclose to a wife and what to leave out. The men agreed that no good comes from giving too much personal...
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