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PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS IMPROVE MEMORY

Memory problems? Let the Portland Trail Blazers help. This Easter a sign kept popping up: “At my age I can hide my own eggs and half an hour later won’t know where they are.” Ha. Ha. Ha? What’s so funny? I forget. Except memory loss is no laughing matter. You want to remember important things, […]

The real Western America isn’t Texas or California Readers around the world see the American west through movies. From John Wayne in his cowboy costume, to private eye Jack Nicholson in LA’s Chinatown, to policeman Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry franchise, they view the west through a distorted lens. Forget about the red rocks of Colorado, […]

DURABLE PORTLAND CAST IRON FINDS

Portland cast iron over your head in an earthquake? It’s still art. I see the stuff and think health hazard. Cast iron is heavy enough on the ground, let alone falling any distance. That’s one of the cautions about historic preservation: save yourself first.

LEARNING FROM WHERE YOU LIVE, PT2: BABY BOOMER ERA

The baby boomer era state of mind. What is there to learn from the baby boomer era? Every passing year the nostalgia grows stronger, but that doesn’t change history. Consider the boomer time line from 1946-1964. The oldest boomers were twenty year olds in 1966. The youngest were twenty in 1984. My cohort […]

PORTLAND RENTS A LIFESTYLE, WHO PAYS THE FREIGHT

One solution to rising Portland rents At first tiny apartments got the shit because they went up in neighborhoods with streets jammed by normal parking. Now the micro havens are a solution, a reason for a drop in the rent crisis. And those bikes? Millennials and bikes and small apartments? It happens. Add […]

OREGON’S BIRTHDAY: WHAT YOU MISSED AT 158

If you skip Oregon’s Birthday party, you’ll never know Oregon. You read the same stories from around the country. People matching their vibe to a location show up in Portland. Families planning a big move, choosing between ten cities, come to Oregon because Portland checked all the right boxes. Students enroll in colleges […]

PERSONAL PRIDE vs MIND YOUR OWN DAMN BUSINESS

Go ahead and be selfish just this once, keep your personal pride personal. Who among us admits personal pride? Raise a hand. All up? Good. Pride for you and yours is a cornerstone of civilization, something to build on. You can tell personal pride people when you see them in full blossom. They wear […]

WRITERS, WRITING CLASSES, ENGLISH DEPARTMENTS

Best advice from writing classes? College freshman might change their major. More than once. But over and over? Relax, it happens. And it’s not pretty. Finding yourself in college is expensive. Even if Major Changer milks it long enough they finish with a degree others call worthless, as in, “what were you thinking?” That’s […]

BOOMER TIME, FEED YOUR MIND, MAKE A RHYME

Boomer time is the right time, and it’s now. If Baby Boomers live up to the current predictions, one in eight will get Alzheimer’s. No cure, bad ending. Is it caused from eating too many modern aluminum foiled TV dinners in childhood? Modern food production and delivery promised unheard of labor savings. The Hungry Man […]

PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS IMPROVE MEMORY

THE REAL WESTERN AMERICA OUT HERE IN OREGON

DURABLE PORTLAND CAST IRON FINDS

LEARNING FROM WHERE YOU LIVE, PT2: BABY BOOMER ERA

PORTLAND RENTS A LIFESTYLE, WHO PAYS THE FREIGHT

OREGON’S BIRTHDAY: WHAT YOU MISSED AT 158

PERSONAL PRIDE vs MIND YOUR OWN DAMN BUSINESS

CHRIS COLEMAN, ASTORIA, A WORLD PREMIERE

WRITERS, WRITING CLASSES, ENGLISH DEPARTMENTS

BOOMER TIME, FEED YOUR MIND, MAKE A RHYME

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