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METH FRIENDLY NEIGHBOR ESTATE SALE

‘Meth friendly’ is a special kind of friendship. It’s a friendship between neighbors when the deliveries and pickups happen between 10 pm and 4 am. Call it a friendship of the night.

FRAGILE CONDITIONS FOR A HAPPY LIFE

Fragile conditions lay all around us but we never notice until fragile turns into broken. Speak up too early and you’re ‘One Of Them’, a worry wort, or attention whore, or you’ve too much time on your hands, kind of person. I’ve seen a message, maybe you too, that life on earth is dependent on […]

ADDITIONAL PROOF? HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH

Additional proof is what’s needed to make an official arrest. Can we all agree on that? No one wants a guilty conviction based on one finger pointer. So, what is additional proof?

PRISON TIME DOESN’T WORK FOR EVERYONE

If you do prison time, what are you supposed to learn? Is education even part of the sentence, or is it a waiting game? People I know have been to prison. One of them twice. Three times is a bigger problem in some states. Oregon has its own sentencing guideline grid.

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 […]

TIGARD POLICE EVENT: HOW NOT TO GET SHOT, pt2

 A helpful conversation after Tigard Police Event. Open communication reduces tension, or can help reduce tension. I kept that in mind before starting a conversation about the Tigard Police event in my front yard. The owner of a local house with loads of traffic caught me cruising the cul-de-sac. She parked in the middle of […]

TIGARD POLICE EVENT AFTERMATH

From the bloodless Tigard Police event. I stopped in the local market for a few cold Beck’s Bombers. A Tigard police rig sat in the parking lot. Should I stop, or should I go. I stopped. I stopped in, bought a few Beck’s Bombers since my regular place had a few warm ones last time, […]

TIGARD POLICE EVENT: NEIGHBOR RELATIONS, PT3

Are you good at neighbor relations? Want to be better? After talking to the Tigard police and the woman who owns the house the Tigard police event centered on, what’s next? One of the men who drives a diesel farm truck up and down the quiet roads sat in his rig while I mowed my […]

TIGARD POLICE EVENT: HOW NOT TO GET SHOT

I got the wife phone call you never want to get. No, not the one where she’s run off to Spain with a gypsy king, or discovered her true self with a Starbucks soothsayer. This phone call: “David, I see nine police cars in front of our house and parked in our driveway. You need […]