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PORTLAND MOVE REVIEW: WHERE TO LOOK

October 29, 2016 by

Things look different before a Portland move. The Portland move is actually a move to Portland, not the Portland of California, the Portland of the midwest, or the Portland of the South. Call it the Portland of Portland. But where do you start with someone else in the car planning a Portland move?

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TIGARD LIBRARY LAST RETURN

September 16, 2016 by

Tigard Library fans? One of the biggest just checked out. Thomas Jefferson said he couldn’t live without books. Life without books? TJ sold his library to Congress after a bad fire. Turns out America couldn’t live without a Library of Congress, couldn’t live without books, like Jefferson. Joan Hensey couldn’t live without books, either; she […]

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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MOTHERS IN LAW DRINK

September 3, 2016 by

At Tigard’s Tapphoria good things happen when mothers in law drink. The first time I met the lady in white she was fifty years old and climbing out of ’69 Mustang fastback. Wearing black leather. Could have been Steve McQueen’s Mustang from Bullet. She and her second husband drove up from LA to see her […]

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OREGON LOVE IN THE DISTRICT

August 23, 2016 by

Reluctant traveler finds Oregon love on the road. The best part of traveling to the other side of North America is answering the question, “Where are you from.” The easy answer is, “Oregon.” The one that gets across is, “Portland, Oregon.” Saying anything else needs explaining, like Tigard, but since I get mail marked Portland, […]

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PORTLAND TAPROOMS: NINE COMMANDMENTS

June 29, 2016 by

A cry for beer opened Portland taprooms, but suburban taprooms like Tigard’s Tapphoria make our day. An ocean of new beer flooded Oregon in the 1980’s. The original Portland Brewing next to the old Acapulco’s Gold on NW 14th and Flanders was enough to make beer lovers cry. Then things changed when small batch beer […]

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TIGARD POLICE EVENT AFTERMATH

May 6, 2016 by

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, […]

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TIGARD POLICE EVENT: NEIGHBOR RELATIONS, PT3

May 3, 2016 by

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 […]

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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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