December 15, 2014

Since moving here six months ago, like all the residents when they first make this extraordinary life style change, I have been adapting to a way of life I never anticipated experiencing. While publicity for CCRC facilities don't make a point of this, one of the primary benefits of living in one, as a couple or single, is that they help you make the best of the time you have left to live. Considering that people you love, know well, or are just acquainted with, are dying all the time, this is something of a death culture. However, calling it this may sound grim; however it is anything but. We talk about death and grief openly; and there is great solace knowing we're all in this together. By and large, this is an upbeat place to grow old - and face the death of your loved one or yourself.



Photos above along the campus river walk near my house.
At the Halloween dinner party, as myself in 1970. Enlarge to see my 1969 grad school ID


Mac and Duff enjoy the gas fireplace.


On Nov. 5th I decided to grow a beard in silent protest to the way the national elections went.

October 28, 2014


For more photos, go to my Facebook page. On the left sidebar go to photos and then to photo albums.

I took the photo here in a Washington state birding park. It is an inch long peeper. It is one of the photos I enlarged to 13" by 19" to frame and hang in the house.

August 19, 2014





Here at Willamette View..... with a long shot taken from Elk Island.

July 15, 2014



I packed up my car, and Mac, Duff and I made our way across the country to relocate in Portland, Oregon. Since June 5, 2014, we've been living in our new house, a duplex in a CCRC on the bluffs above the Willamette River.


February 8, 2014

You'll find it almost impossible to find my blogs now since the GateHouse Media papers that carry them have been modernized with a new look. Unfortunately getting the blogger section online where they can be found has the lowest priority. We all should be listed in the Opinions > Columns section.

My most recent blog, however, was published in some 150 GateHouse Media publications in the entertainment section thanks to my editor.

You can read it, and a few other of my pieces (with photos missing) here.


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