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NEIGHBORHOOD LIFE: NEW PLACES, SAME NEIGHBORS

Neighborhood life changes when you change, otherwise it’s the same thing / different day every day. Does that sound like a rut? It’s a rut. Every time you hear the response “Same ol’ same ol’” when you ask how things are going, remember it when someone asks you. It’s a cry for help. Okay, maybe […]

SEX, DRUGS, AND ROCK AND ROLL. OR JUST DRUGS

How To Live Next To A Heroin House. A move to the suburbs in most cities means a move away from drugs and crime. Not Portland, Oregon. My inner eastside apartment was too dangerous for a young family. Houses had metal barred windows and bad yards. The juice was never changing. It was a bad […]