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GIRLFRIEND BREAK UP AFTERMATH WITH DIRK FERGUSON

  Girlfriend break up? It’s one way to learn how to stay married later. A bad break up then makes a better husband now.   Dirk Ferguson witnessed the aftermath of a girlfriend break up that served as a guide to any break up wing man for the whole sad affair.   Play Hall and […]

SECRET VOTES: SCHOOL, SAFETY, HEALTH CARE

During election years voters pick their horse, their favorite. No secret votes at the start. If they turn out they way they say they’ll turn out, good job in the ballot box. If they don’t they have a built in excuse: “I’m the lesser of two evils.” No one runs a campaign based on being […]

YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU. HOW’S IT GOING?

Human nature kicks in hard on the question of right or wrong. You always want to be right. So does the person who is wrong. If it’s too hard to decide who is right or wrong, find a third-party, but first agree to live with their decision. The biggest problem with right or wrong is […]

THE DAY DRUGS STOPPED WORKING? NEVER

  The last place you want to go after the drugs stopped. The drugs stopped working at a mom and pop funeral parlor where the owners lived upstairs. A shiny metal coffin sat in the chapel with a beautiful young woman inside. She wore a conservative suit, the sort of clothes that get people hired […]

POLICE STOP PROTOCOL FOR BOOMERS

Driving 80 in a 55 means behave yourself. A police stop protocol when you’re pulled over in the middle of nowhere for speeding goes like this: From the beginning: – This car has a little growl when you punch it. You ever punch it? = No, I’m not a race car driver and neither are […]

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 […]

DE-POLICE PORTLAND

Does Portland in de-police make a better city? “We used to be judged on our work ethic. How many stops, how many contacts, how many calls.” “That was police work?” “That’s police work, what used to be police work. Still should be. You get to a point in a police career where you feel the […]