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BLAZER LILLARD ERASES BAD PORTLAND MEMORIES

April 25, 2019 by

Ask any sports fan and they’ll tell you: are the most lasting memories of your team the wins or the losses? Because once the fan base gets used to winning, the losing always shocks. Every Cowboy fan knows this. The same with Oregon Duck football fans from 2010’s Auburn cheat game win. That was a […]

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MEMOIR REMINDER: ALL ABOUT YOU BUT STARTS WITH ME

April 24, 2019 by

My story, your story, one story What’s a memoir reminder? Just that the book called a memoir isn’t a biography, auto-biography, or a novel. None of that, not for a memoir. It’s all about keeping time and not flying all over the place in a random, scattershot, manner. An example of where it starts and […]

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MUSIC MUSEUM WILD MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

April 23, 2019 by

What came before bagpipes in music museum? Is it the ‘goat pipe?’ Maybe the ‘dog pipe?’ Which ever it was, I didn’t get to hear how they sounded. The Musical Instrument Museum in Scottsdale AZ isn’t for the timid. Music minded people throughout the ages learned to improvise. Like Elvis singing Jailhouse Rock where inmates […]

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FOUR TWENTY FOR THE YEAR 2019

April 20, 2019 by

Whats the big deal on four twenty? The easy answer is smoke ’em if you’ve got ’em, and it’s not cigarettes. How easy is it to score weed in Oregon? Score used to be the cool word for buying ditch weed in the old days, as in, “Dude, I scored some weed,” and they show […]

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ROSENBERG SUMMER OF 1953

April 19, 2019 by

The Rosenberg summer of 1953 didn’t end well, unless getting the chair in Sing Sing is on your schedule. They were the nice couple who were identified as spies funneling nuclear information to Russia. And they got electrocuted in prison for their effort, aka ‘the chair.’ Famous for being the only two executed for espionage […]

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PORTLAND FUTURE: WHAT TO EXPECT

April 18, 2019 by

What I want to see happen How many times have I driven over the Willamette River and looked at the Eastside thinking of what a Portland future could be? Every time. Early morning works best, especially if you’re leaving town for a short time. When I get back I don’t expect the freeway to be […]

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DOG OWNER APOLOGY LONG TIME COMING

April 17, 2019 by

Like so many others with a heart that beats regularly, I’ve been around dogs most of my life, at leas the parts I’ve shared with others. My childhood dog was actually my children’s childhood dog since my childhood dog didn’t stick around long enough for the proverbial ‘dog bond.’ Rusty wasn’t a good fit with […]

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STATE OF OREGON GETS BEAVER IN ’69

April 16, 2019 by

Too cute. Best of any state? Yes, it is.

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AXE WORK, PART TWO

April 15, 2019 by

Fair warning on axe work: Be Careful. With one you could get maimed pretty good. Sink a blade into your shin or foot and what do you get? Lots of noise, concern, and a feeling that you shouldn’t be trusted with sharp tools. But that’s not you, right?

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PROMOTE AMERICAN FUTURE WITH AN AXE

April 14, 2019 by

Without getting into the details, I’ve somehow collected about fifteen axes. I’ve become an axe repository. Along with axes for wood, I’ve found six guitars around the house. I claim one. ‘Why the axes,’ I wonder when I add them all up. Then it came to me. America was built with an axe of one […]

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