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Saga of 1* Part 2…

I have a secret motorcycle group and it was born of my sorrow that you guys turned into camaraderie. 2009 … and I had an idea… to get Cmack and Greg to be best friends. And Cmack had an idea to get us to Sturgis.  Greg had never ridden across the country and was itching to bring his buddy to meet us, some shrink named Dr. Shapiro. Mike rode a Bandit, and Greg rode a bike that at the time might a
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Saga of the 1* Introduction.

You are all the best friends a guy could have. I began writing this a couple of weeks ago… I found an encouraging note yesterday from Dr. Shapiro, going all the way back to 2015. He was kindly responding to a suggestion I’d made about the group being less dependent on me planning our annual ride, and reasons for such. I find myself in a similar situation now, perhaps even more so. My passion for seei
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the Best

On her birthday Lisa took care of other people all day. She’s a cancer fighter but was able to take care of herself and everyone else at the same time. I say ‘cancer fighter’ instead of survivor because survivor makes you think of words like remission. The cancer Lisa fights is, so far, incurable and terminal. In March of 2010 she found out she had a type of non-Hodgkins, small cell lymphocytic lymp
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The Dung Beetle and Me…

I was on 183 north, right at the state line crossing from Oklahoma into Kansas, and was getting my “10k” steps in when I made a new friend. Check this out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPmyDfP9aQ This is where I met the beetle…
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Podcast… I’m a guest on a podcast… finally!

You can hear me squawk about our free release of Upside Down on: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/icoc-weekly-podcast/id1268799960?mt=2  
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Watch “Upside Down” for free!

You can watch “Upside Down” for free now on our YouTube channel at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQW3bNuU-y4&list=PLCwn-iWAT83KqAJiM0EvRYEW8IZ_xskR4 And while you’re there please go ahead and subscribe. You don’t have to subscribe to watch, just to help us out! thx.
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30 years and still alive…

we all have epic moments in our lives. at midnight tonight, Boston time (EDT), i’ll be having one. i’m not good at celebrating epic moments. i wasn’t able to be at the 30th anniversary of the new york church, and few thing have ever been as important in my life as Lisa Johnson and i planting that congregation in 1983. Lisa and i were married a week before christmas, so once we had children, celebrat
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THE SECOND MILE CLUB: Amping up Launch!

Thanks if you subscribed to our youtube channel where our musical can soon be viewed for free: https://youtube.com/upsidedowntheatre Now, if you want to go THE SECOND MILE please help us amplify our launch by thunderclapping the sucker! Check this out please: https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/59805-upside-down-theatre-youtube  
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Forest Baths and Gravel Roads

Shinrin-Yoku may be a new term for you as it is for me, but the idea of getting the heck out of town isn’t. As a city dweller for most of my adult life… 4 years in Boston, 11 years in Manhattan, 10 in its shadow and now almost 12 years as a resident of bulging Portland, Oregon; I’ve long known that if I didn’t occasionally get in the woods I would die! One of my best friends is an architect wi
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Old men and Old bikes and Old truths…

<> Lisa and I are in New York for her bi-annual doctor’s visit. This trip is a little more relaxed than usual. Our hosts, Cmack and Tenetia, are always gracious and for nearly 8 years now have made their home our home. We have a room that’s about as comfortable as you can get and wifi. Ahhh, yeah, wifi. So I keep working on getting subscribers to my youtube channel and looking forward to driving int
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