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TIGARD POLICE EVENT: NEIGHBOR RELATIONS, PT3

May 3, 2016 by

Are you good at neighbor relations? Want to be better? After talking to the Tigard police and the woman who owns the house the Tigard police event centered on, what’s next? One of the men who drives a diesel farm truck up and down the quiet roads sat in his rig while I mowed my […]

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TIGARD POLICE EVENT: HOW NOT TO GET SHOT

May 1, 2016 by

I got the wife phone call you never want to get. No, not the one where she’s run off to Spain with a gypsy king, or discovered her true self with a Starbucks soothsayer. This phone call: “David, I see nine police cars in front of our house and parked in our driveway. You need […]

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BOOMER IN AWESOMEVILLE

April 19, 2016 by

Ode to a departed man of the world, a Boomer in Awesomeville.   Some people you save for the long haul, guys you know will be around, you’ll catch up with them later with they pass through town.   They never change, you can count on that, from their Romeo slippers to their old ball […]

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OPENING DAY FOR HIKING SEASON, 2016

April 10, 2016 by

Get Ready, Get Set, And Go For Hiking Season Hiking is like walking, at least that’s the idea. If you can walk, take a walk. Upgrade the walk to a hike by lacing up hiking boots. Hiking season and hiking boots go together like a hand in a glove. But, unlike OJ Simpson’s glove, if […]

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AGING BOOMERS THIN THEIR HERD

March 29, 2016 by

Years pile on aging boomers and they get stuck under them. Back in college days at University of Oregon, one class had a red ass teacher: Community Service and Public Administration. This was during the blossom of boomer-hood. Not an aging boomer in sight. What the prof did on the first day was tell the […]

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MIDDLE EASTERN EASTER MOMENTS IN OREGON

March 28, 2016 by

How you see your middle eastern Easter moments reveal your true self. Do you like it? If you’ve been to a big box store, you know the drill. Get a huge cart, fill it up, pack it into your car and go home. This was one of those trips to Costco. Nothing unusual. At first. […]

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SAUCEBOX MILLENNIALS ON BROADWAY

March 15, 2016 by

Nothing good happens after midnight? Even for Saucebox Millennials? Go out with a group of millennials you’ve known since birth, kindergarten, or grade school, and you’ll see something familiar. They party like baby boomers in their twenties. They drink drinks and talk and carry on like barflies. There might be one among them who needs […]

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HOW TO DRAG A PORTLAND DRUG HOUSE

March 7, 2016 by

Dragging the gut for young baby boomer is not the same as dragging Portland drug house. If you are in the drug life, a drug house next door is perfect. If you’re not in the life, the neighbor might crowd your style. Imagine a quiet street of stately homes. Sprinkler systems, architectural lighting, and meth. […]

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BOOMER MOMS KNOW

March 6, 2016 by

If you love something, don’t set it free like boomer moms were set free. Boomer moms know all about love. Good love, bad love, boomer moms know the love cycle. First they were enchanted by the big strong men around them, the dads and uncles and neighbors. Then it was the young men who reminded […]

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HOW TO KNOW YOUR PLACE

March 3, 2016 by

Do You Know Your Place? Need To Learn? Look back on your earliest memories. Were you surrounded by everything you’d ever want? If you go back far enough, you don’t know what you want. You just remember stuff. Having siblings means sharing your stuff. Now think back on how you and your siblings shared things. […]

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