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CUVÉE MOTHER’S DAY WITH CHEF GILBERT HENRY AND COMPANY

May 11, 2026 by Leave a Comment

Mother’s Day grows more importance when it’s part of a masterplan. Add a road trip with a restaurant at the end and it edges toward epic. It goes without saying that any two lane drive through rural Washington and Yamhill County is enough to make you want to sell everything and move into a dilapidated […]

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SHARING SPECIAL DAYS, EVERY LAST ONE

May 9, 2026 by Leave a Comment

Special days have special meaning which don’t hit the same for everyone. For some it’s repeating, “Why bother,” for the fortieth time. Others like to say, “I thought we’ve moved past all that.” But you still find those looking for something special in every day, and keep looking until they find it. Hell or high […]

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OLD PORTLAND, YOUNG PARENTS

May 8, 2026 by Leave a Comment

Make that old Portland, youngish parents. Or not so old Portland, and not so young parents. We weren’t teenagers, but if you ever want to feel like one push a stroller around downtown. With two kids it’s like a double punishment, like sent to your room AND missing dinner. What else?

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LET THEM, LET YOU, OR LET ME?

May 7, 2026 by 1 Comment

The Let Them Theory book has a lot of lets in the letters. My favorites are the parts that address my problems, which come with a writing habit from what I can tell. Will I discover why I’m not a better writer? Learn what I should have done by now, or find a lingering message […]

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RECLAIMING MY TIME ON SOUTHERN OREGON COLLEGE SIXTY-FIVE YEARS LATER

April 30, 2026 by Leave a Comment

Southern Oregon College Graduating Class of 1960: My dad. He transferred after two years at Central Oregon Community College in Bend. It was a well used path to the first college degree in his family. He was thirty years old, an old 30. Back then thirty was older, fifty was a grandparent. Hit sixty and […]

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GAINING CONFIDENCE, losing confidence

April 29, 2026 by Leave a Comment

The thing about confidence, gaining confidence, is making it personal. Something bothers you until you do something about it, then it doesn’t bother you. As much. Whether you fixed a problem, or not, you did something. That’s a win in the davidpdx book, blog, post, something. It’s win.

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THE ART OF FRIENDSHIP, OR WHY YOU DON’T HAVE ANY FRIENDS

April 24, 2026 by Leave a Comment

If you want to experience friendship, have friends, be generous. Loan money, loan tools, loan your car. That’s also the way to experience friendlessness when they don’t repay, return, and crash your car. The other way is spending time together. My wife says I don’t have any friends because the only people I spend time […]

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A PORTLAND QUEEN IN KING CITY

April 23, 2026 by 2 Comments

This morning found me looking at my back tire the way this guy’s feeling about his tire. I was probably more surprised since I wasn’t out four wheelin’, just a car sitting in the driveway. Right away my plans changed from finishing a blog post and moving on, to finishing a blog post and limping […]

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UNDERSTANDING REGIONAL EMOTIONS BY WEATHER

April 23, 2026 by Leave a Comment

My California girl wife discovered regional emotions in her business. With empathy and experience she learned more about people by where they we’re from than where they are. I helped out with my research, and The Beach Boys. She grew up in the next town over from them.

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NW PORTLAND FROM 1980 TO YESTERDAY

April 22, 2026 by Leave a Comment

I take snap shots of NW Portland, not out of nostalgia but celebration, where you walk past buildings like this block after block. It’s the only area in town where authentic city life happens, where new people arrive, settle in, and walk from apartment to work. That’s the plan, the dream, and when it works […]

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