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COVID SUNDAY: VACCINE DATE AT OREGON CONVENTION CENTER

Covid Sunday started at 2:45. That was the appointment time for a covid vaccine. Not my appointment though, I was just the driver. The driver plans one thing for Covid Sunday: Don’t be late. That was my plan after talking to a lady who had been late and lost her appointment time. The plan was […]

GRECO ROMAN MEDAL WITH A HAPPY FAMILY

Greco Roman sounds so classic because that’s what it is, classic. It sounds old, like Greek City-State and Roman Empire old. Way the heck back there. In the sports world, Greco Roman is a particular style of wrestling, not an architectural element. It’s for athletes who don’t want to get tangled up in someone’s legs, […]

DANKEST HOUR DURING THE OREGON WINTER

If the “Darkest hour is just before dawn,” when is the Dankest hour? I dug into a dictionary to figure it out. “Dank: disagreeably damp, musty, and typically cold.” In other words, most every day of an Oregon winter. Pelican Brewing added to the definition:

TIGARD PROTEST MARCH AFTER POLICE SHOOTING

The Tigard protest came after a police shooting death. Tigard Police declared a riot Thursday night after a man in mental distress died earlier in the day. Tigard twitter caught it all: I’m all for the protests against police. Their all dangerous thugss especially in Portland area. That being said small businesses in tigard should […]

OREGON FOOTBALL SET TO BE A BETTER EXAMPLE NEXT YEAR

Oregon football takes the national stage today as the PAC12 Champion against BIG12 runner-up Iowa State. And rightfully so. After all, it wasn’t Oregon’s fault Washington opted out of the title game against USC due to covid. Someone had to play the Trojans. But, it was Oregon’s fault that USC didn’t go undefeated, and now […]

WINNING PORTLAND? LOSE SOMEPLACE ELSE FIRST

Winning Portland, if you call it a win, is easy: grow a beard, wear plaid, work up an opinion on every beer you open. If that sounds like a Portland dream, it is, but it doesn’t last. Bikes, beer gardens, and weed shops are all good news from the outside looking in, but if those […]

EDUCATIONAL BREAKDOWN: “IF IT’S NOT BROKEN . . .”

I found this educational breakdown map on twitter. Is it accurate, or close enough? Social media accuracy is close enough without knowing when this was made and the data at the time. I’m not posting this to cheer the smart states or rag on the others, but to show how an educational breakdown of the […]

OREGON EXPERIENCE: WHAT TO EXPECT IF YOU’RE NEW TO THE STATE

People come from far and wide for the Oregon experience. They leave with gratitude for their time here, and make plans to return. After thrilling at the waterfalls, mountains, and beaches, they see places like Kansas and Oklahoma through new eyes. They take the Oregon experience home and make it work. By the way, what […]

HOPEFUL HISTORY THE OREGON WAY

Opening a book to find hopeful history is pure folly. It’s not history if all the good and bad parts get the whitewash treatment. Too often Oregon history is a mashup of wagon trains and farmers, of noble people of the land, salt of the earth, staking out new ground on behalf of their godly […]

WHEN SOFT MEN,PILLOWY MEN, PLAY HARD

Take my opinions on soft men to heart, I’ve seen them in action. So have you. Like most converts to a new belief system, soft men who play hard go an extra mile, or ten. They’ve got something to prove to their soft man group. But there’s a special trick they use.