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STARTING OVER ONE MORE TIME

May 27, 2026 by

Calling it a day and starting over after forty five years? Not me, my wife’s business. After five moves beginning in NW Portland and ending in Lake Oswego, delivering hundreds of babies, treating thousands of patients, the timing couldn’t be better. We met at the start, teamed up for her business, and now it will […]

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GOOD PARKS FOR A BETTER LIFE

May 21, 2026 by

I didn’t move to the suburbs for good parks, but I would have if I knew how important they are for living a better life. The first time I took my tiny kids they weren’t impressed. I was. It was Cook Park in Tigard, Oregon and it was beautiful with paths and forests alongside the […]

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SENDING THE RIGHT MESSAGE TO WHO?

May 20, 2026 by

I’ve heard the right message all of my life: Do this and this; don’t do that. Sometimes the right message comes from the right place. Other times?

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REMEMBER TO VOTE: BE SOMEBODY

May 19, 2026 by

Remember to vote at this late date. Late? Well, this is the last day to drop ballots at collection sites. Mine dropped yesterday. Felt pretty good.

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SHARING SPECIAL DAYS, EVERY LAST ONE

May 9, 2026 by

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

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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GAINING CONFIDENCE, losing confidence

April 29, 2026 by

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

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

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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NW PORTLAND FROM 1980 TO YESTERDAY

April 22, 2026 by

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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