A hard rule among writers: avoid talking about a writing project. So what do writers talk about in writer meetings? Last night while attending a Willamette Writers meeting I saw writer evidence all over the place across a crowded room. I scanned the crowd from a plush chair inside Tabor Space on […]
PORTLAND CROSSROADS CULTURE BETWEEN SCIENCE, AGE, AND ATTITUDE
April 30, 2018 by
All towers growing around Portland have at least one thing in common: At one precise moment they could either be a building going up, or on the way down. Like bomb exploded landscapes resemble a controlled demolition after the dust settles, a first glance can be so misleading. Click the link to […]
SCIENCE EXPLAINED TO THE NON-SCIENTIST
April 19, 2018 by
Some things need to be taken with a grain of salt, some with a whole salt box, but science explained for the non-scientific? Start shoveling, if general comments mean anything. The Earth Is Not Flat? Yes, it’s a discussion point, but for who? Who hasn’t seen something called a globe and […]
STARBUCKS BOOMER MORNING CHOICES
April 16, 2018 by
That feeling when you’re driving long distance and have to make a head stop and there’s no rest area? Find a Starbucks, buy a tall coffee, problem solved. Some of the best restrooms in public places are in Starbucks. Don’t like coffee? Then stop someplace else, like fast food, a gas […]
HONOR CODE: BEAT THE SYSTEM OR CHEAT THE SYSTEM
April 1, 2018 by
Before anyone tries to beat the system, and if that fails, cheat the system, the most important thing to do is define the system. Does it have an honor code? What is they system? Should you even try to beat it, or cheat it? If you have a personal honor code, there’s […]
FACEBOOK DATA SALE: KNOW WHEN YOU’RE ON THE AUCTION BLOCK
March 31, 2018 by
Sharing has its drawbacks. Like a literary critic reading a book and coming to a different conclusion than the author intended, we share events and locations and feelings on facebook, and it gets misinterpreted by data harvesters. Search for a car and suddenly the car you’re searching for shows up on facebook […]
TIME, THE REAL SECRET TO A HAPPY LIFE
March 28, 2018 by
In the medical world no sweeter words hit the ear than, “We got to the problem just in time.” Perfect timing. ‘Just in time,’ is my new good luck phrase. Late? Or just in time. I’ll never be late again. Early? Or just in time? One school […]
VOTE: COMMON GOOD TAKES UNCOMMON GOOD SENSE
March 21, 2018 by
A joke about a doctor goes like this: “Doctor, it hurts when I do this?” “Don’t do that,” says the doctor. Hilarity ensues. Take my wife, please. America runs on the same theme. When the rest of the world points to a sore spot and says it hurts, Dr. […]
FACEBOOK DATA BROKERS GET DIRTY WITH OUR MUD
March 19, 2018 by
The numbers are too big to fathom. $42 billion loss in market value? 50 million users had their data harvested? All we want to do is post a nice cat picture, not get sucked into some weird vortex of data mining. Don’t get me wrong, I like mining, but for the right […]
FAKE PRESIDENT DONALD STERLING HELPS PRESIDENT TRUMP SHINE
January 8, 2018 by
Donald Sterling isn’t President of the United States, but he is a west coast version of the east coast Donald, President Donald J. Trump. What if the west coast Donald wanted it bad enough? As a billionaire real estate man, fake President Donald Sterling would have introduced his own incredible cast […]
