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TIGARD POLICE EVENT: HOW NOT TO GET SHOT

May 1, 2016 by

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 […]

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TIGARD FOREST AND TREES

June 23, 2015 by

A Walk In Bull Mountain Park And A Tigard Forest Is A Hike For The Psyche.   Too many suburban towns forget about the people and the place they call home. New people move in, throw a lawn chair in the backyard, and call it good. They turn invisible. For the next twenty years they […]

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

July 24, 2014 by

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 […]

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