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MAKE AN OFFERUP YOU CAN’T REFUSE

July 2, 2016 by

With a growing pile of ‘treasure’ don’t give up, OfferUp. If you have storage space, you probably have stuff in there. Maybe the stuff is in there to keep it out of sight. Like the bike that reminds you of another time in your life, a time when someone you cared about had the same […]

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PORTLAND TAPROOMS: NINE COMMANDMENTS

June 29, 2016 by

A cry for beer opened Portland taprooms, but suburban taprooms like Tigard’s Tapphoria make our day. An ocean of new beer flooded Oregon in the 1980’s. The original Portland Brewing next to the old Acapulco’s Gold on NW 14th and Flanders was enough to make beer lovers cry. Then things changed when small batch beer […]

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FACEBOOK FRIENDS: A WHO’S WHO

June 23, 2016 by

All Facebook friends are not created equal. Vanity Fair loves Facebook. Who doesn’t? Can a billion people a day be wrong? Or maybe they’re cuddling up to Mark Zuckerberg, The Man, The Face, of Facebook. Understandable if they are. He is one of the big biggies of the online world. His is the biggest face […]

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HOPPER VISION

May 30, 2016 by

Once Hopper Vision strikes, you see Hoppers everywhere. One hangs on a wall, the other sits on the street.

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HISTORY, OREGON HISTORY

May 18, 2016 by

You could walk by this building on NW Everett and just keep walking. Nothing to see here, just a worn out facade in a beat down part of Portland with chips and stains. A couple of radiator shops across the street complete the view. If there was anything special about it, there wasn’t a sign, […]

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SPELLING LOVE RIGHT

May 16, 2016 by

Spelling love is not about the alphabet. If you know your ABC’s, spelling love is easy. And we all know out ABC’s just fine by now. The alphabet isn’t like algebra or anything else in school that made you wonder why you needed it so bad it made the curriculum. Spelling love with an algebraic […]

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BOOKS ON A SHELF YOU CAN’T TALK ABOUT

May 11, 2016 by

You Need To Read Books On A Shelf Before You Talk About Them. It only makes sense to read books on a shelf before you talk about them, but it doesn’t always work out that way. At a writers gathering the speaker showed up in all of their writer regalia geared to wow the young […]

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CALLE 16 MURAL PROJECT AND BARRIO CAFE PHOENIX

April 23, 2016 by

Art, Food, Desert. Barrio Cafe To The Rescue. After rice and beans, chips and dips, what’s next in Mexican food? The Barrio Cafe. With a fusion of French influence, Chef Silvana Salcido Esparza writes a new book every night. The chapter I read came with the crew from 431 Stapley. It started in Mesa. “Did […]

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MARRIED MILLENNIALS, PORTLAND WED pt. 3

March 23, 2016 by

Confessions of a helicopter parent on married millennials. Like the time you looked in the mirror and saw your dad’s face for the first time, or your mom’s, or both, married millennials change the picture. They won’t do it the way it’s been done, the normal way, or new normal. Instead, they’ll put their own […]

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PORTLAND BORN, PORTLAND WED, PORTLAND WORLD pt 2

March 22, 2016 by

Every marriage has a beginning. This is one of them. Portland Born, Portland Wed. I met my wife in early 80’s NW Portland. She was a new professional starting her first practice next to my apartment building. I should say my studio apartment, a sort of mini-pad that’s all the rage with the kids these […]

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