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WITH WIFE AND MOTHER IN LAW A high school reunion brings ’em back, friends and teammates. You see the big guys smaller and the small guys bigger. And the rest of us. But that’s not what you see on a...
View ArticleTHE PIRATE DUCK
or, HOW TO LAY DOWN OLD GRUDGES FOR A BETTER FUTURE Every generation creates something permanent. If they don’t get it done, they want credit for the work done before them. Did every Egyptian make the...
View ArticleThe Good Life
THIS IS WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE, LOOKS LIKE, AND FEELS LIKE By guest writer Rick Wetherell, Mayor of North Bend, Oregon The day in the Life….. I wake in the morning at 5:30 A.M. in my 100+ year old-three...
View ArticleHow To Go Home Again Boomer Style
NW Boomer, the baby boomer guide, disagrees with Thomas Wolfe. He said, “You can’t go home again,” then wrote a huge book about it. Maybe that works if you come from the east, but not in Oregon. You...
View ArticleBOOMERS ON THE MOVE TO SOMEWHERE ELSE
Why Not To The Hometown? No one likes hearing classmate at a reunion say, “So glad I got out of here.” Hear it once and you want them out of there again. Hometowns aren’t prison to escape from. If you...
View ArticleSUMMERTIME AND THE TEACHERS RECHARGE
On the surface a teaching gig looks like a cakewalk. From the classroom, to the teachers’ lounge, the time off, it makes people jealous, as if they could do the job. Here’s a message to the good people...
View ArticleHIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL FROM THE BOOMER SIDE OF THE FIELD
The North Bend Bulldogs and Tigard Tigers. The 4A Bulldogs climbed into the Oregon state finals for 2014 after their 41-40 squeaker in the semi-finals. A win is a win, we can all agree, but a one point...
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 ArticleYOUR NAME, YOUR TRUTH
In a time not so long ago your name wasn’t good enough. Hard to believe in the land of straight shooters and honor, but John Wayne didn’t start out as John Wayne. Neither did Marilyn Monroe and Tony...
View ArticlePODUNK TOWN, OR YOUR HOMETOWN
Nothing Explains Feelings For A Hometown, Your Hometown, Than Traveling Though Others. Drive down I-5, Highway 99, 101 down the coast, or 97 east of the Cascades, and you roll through one podunk town...
View ArticleKING OF THE HILL IN NORTH BEND, OREGON
People know the place when you say you’re from North Bend. Ask someone where there from and you expect one answer, one place. Then you get this: “I grew up all over the place.” Hear that and know...
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 ArticleYOUR NAME, YOUR TRUTH
In a time not so long ago your name wasn’t good enough. Hard to believe in the land of straight shooters and honor, but John Wayne didn’t start out as John Wayne. Neither did Marilyn Monroe and Tony...
View ArticlePODUNK TOWN, OR YOUR HOMETOWN
Nothing Explains Feelings For A Hometown, Your Hometown, Than Traveling Though Others. Drive down I-5, Highway 99, 101 down the coast, or 97 east of the Cascades, and you roll through one podunk town...
View ArticleKING OF THE HILL IN NORTH BEND, OREGON
People know the place when you say you’re from North Bend. Ask someone where there from and you expect one answer, one place. Then you get this: “I grew up all over the place.” Hear that and know...
View ArticleSMALL TOWN CITY LIFE
Your small town isn’t as small as you think. I told a new friend where I came from, how big it was. He said where he comes from, everyone in towns as small as mine were hillbillies. What he didn’t know...
View ArticleNORTH BEND BULLDOGS WIN BIGGER THAN FOOTBALL
A win for North Bend Bulldogs reaches across decades. A hundred years from now North Bend Bulldogs will remember the first football championship. Two guys more than forty years out of uniform explain:...
View ArticleROBIN RICHARDS TO THE RESCUE
What would Robin Richards do? I grew up in a small Oregon town that had one big team, the wrestling team. And I wasn’t a wrestler. After working my athletic magic to the point of no return in...
View ArticleALL DOGS MATTER, NORTH BEND BULLDOGS MATTER MORE
Of all mascots, North Bend Bulldogs rise to the top. You probably heard this before? “You may forget names and faces, but you’ll never forget how you felt being there.” North Bend is where the...
View ArticleLEARNING FROM WHERE YOU LIVE, PT.1: NORTH BEND
Ask the North Bend question. In a reflective moment that soon passed, I asked my Dad which of us grew up in a rougher town. I felt certain he’d say his town, Ryderwood. Ryderwood was a logging camp...
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