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NEW YORK, NEW YORK? COME ON NEW YORK

April 19, 2020 by

Doing the right thing in New York is the same as doing the right thing in Oregon: Stay home, keep a social distance. My social distance from NYC is 3000 miles away, but it wasn’t always that way. Frank said it best:

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JUSTIN HERBERT HOPE: WILL THE NFL TRASH ANOTHER OREGON QB

April 18, 2020 by

Justin Herbert image via KCBY, Coos Bay, Oregon Oregon quarterback Justin Herbert joins a long green line of Duck signal callers headed to the NFL. How long a line? Who is in that line? Please proceed.

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CORONAVIRUS SAFETY: PSA FOR THE VIGILANT

March 24, 2020 by

A boomerpdx fan asked about Coronavirus safety, and how this platform could help. “Have you written a Public Service Announcement on Coronavirus safety,” he asked. I said I had not; he said I should. I agreed. Here are a few Coronavirus safety ideas to pass around. First, for Men:

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OREGON HISTORICAL: JOB THREE OF FIVE

March 21, 2020 by

Oregon Historical is the third of a five part series inspired by a twitter post asking to list five jobs. From mill work, to army medic, a museum job was a perfect fit. The idea started from three thousand miles away.

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GREEN CHAIN DANCER TELLS SISTER STORY

March 18, 2020 by

The green chain in the local plywood mill called for me after freshman year in college. I had a college loan and the job was the best for paying it off and putting money away for sophomore year. I was the new guy on the swing shift crew in 1974 with men who enjoyed a […]

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EARLY SCHOOL RIVALRIES FUEL LIFETIME OF CONTENTION

March 6, 2020 by

Early school rivalries explain so much about how we interact with one another. I started school at sea level; the rivalry schools were on higher ground. That’s where kids from the fancy part of town learned how important they were and why they were better. At least that was the theory in first grade. Sports […]

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GRACELESS BEHAVIOR: APOLOGIZING FOR MALE PATTERN RUDENESS

February 20, 2020 by

What better example of graceless behavior than an old man stealing a seat from women? Yes, it’s a small thing, but still a symptom of a greater ill. Graceless behavior is not about equal rights.

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SUPPLY CHAIN BLUES ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY

February 7, 2020 by

A supply chain brings the stuff, the things we can’t live without. Large and small, long and short, it’s stuff that is researched and designed, approved and produced, then boxed and shipped. A strong chain delivers quality on time; then there’s the other supply chains.

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL FINAL: HOW ABOUT THOSE OREGON DUCKS

January 14, 2020 by

The Oregon Ducks didn’t play in the college football finals last night. Neither did Oklahoma. Today the final rankings came out. Oregon was #5 in the polls that matter, #7 in a network poll where the people probably didn’t stay awake for PAC12 games, and #6 in a poll of experts last updateD in early […]

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THE HEATER AND THE OREGON HEAT

January 7, 2020 by

On a chilly Oregon Sunday, known as Wild Card Weekend in the NFL, my heater died. I had no Oregon heat. My palace was cold. Like every writer known to man, I was working and didn’t notice until I felt the air conditioning kick in. Except the cool breeze came from the furnace fan, minus […]

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