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If Winners Rule By Winning, Everyone Else Is A Loser?

The safe answer for winners is, “Maybe.” Don’t we all consider ourselves winners at some point? We might say we don’t keep score, but we know the score. Like rec soccer for toddlers, they knew the score of their games even if the parents pretended not to. So why not just say, “screw it,” and […]

REAL THIRD PLACE LIVING SPACE

For a brief time I was an athlete with potential. I’d learned how to not get pinned in wrestling, how to lose by decision, how to win by decision, and finally how to stall to victory. It’s the last one people like referees didn’t understand. They hated it, told me to stay on the mat, […]

THIRD PLACE RANKING BEHIND HOME, WORK

Third place in sports is hard to celebrate, while third place in what passes for normal life is something to cheer for. At least that’s the idea. I celebrate third place in sports, the bronze medal, because only two others took things further. A third place in public life needs gold certification if you decide […]

AXE WORK, PART TWO

Fair warning on axe work: Be Careful. With one you could get maimed pretty good. Sink a blade into your shin or foot and what do you get? Lots of noise, concern, and a feeling that you shouldn’t be trusted with sharp tools. But that’s not you, right?

PROMOTE AMERICAN FUTURE WITH AN AXE

Without getting into the details, I’ve somehow collected about fifteen axes. I’ve become an axe repository. Along with axes for wood, I’ve found six guitars around the house. I claim one. ‘Why the axes,’ I wonder when I add them all up. Then it came to me. America was built with an axe of one […]

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 […]

VOLUNTEER: THERE’S ALWAYS THAT ONE GUY

Have you ever been a volunteer and worked on a team and had to do teamwork stuff? Was it fun? Add family members with attitude on a house tear down and see how it goes. While it wasn’t a competition, I tore a house down with said family members and felt the need to prove […]

CLASSIC PORTLAND, JAKES, JANE AUSTEN

Classic Portland isn’t a memory, or some sort of dream. It’s not a TV show or a few blocks on the Eastside. Classic Portland is what the new people see when they move here; it’s what they’ll complain about when they move to Tigard in ten years.

HUBERS HISTORY, PORTLAND HISTORY, AND THE GREAT JAMES LOUIE

Walk into any gym with a weight room to go along with a dance studio, yoga retreat, therapy rooms, pool, hot tub, and you’ll fine exceptional people under the bar. Strong people, men and women who decided to build and rebuild, and continue building their bodies to meet every challenge they face. It works like […]

Dropping The Vote, Nov. 6, 2018

  Oregon voting works like a Starbucks, or McDonald’s, or Taco Bell drive through. We’ve all got the drive through part figured out, but what’s the order of the day? Vote. I dropped the vote off at a box near the Tigard police station. What could go wrong? My business isn’t telling others what to […]