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AXE WORK, PART TWO

April 15, 2019 by

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?

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PROMOTE AMERICAN FUTURE WITH AN AXE

April 14, 2019 by

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 […]

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TIGARD POLICE EVENT: HOW NOT TO GET SHOT, pt2

April 7, 2019 by

 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 […]

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VOLUNTEER: THERE’S ALWAYS THAT ONE GUY

April 3, 2019 by

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 […]

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CLASSIC PORTLAND, JAKES, JANE AUSTEN

January 30, 2019 by

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.

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HUBERS HISTORY, PORTLAND HISTORY, AND THE GREAT JAMES LOUIE

January 13, 2019 by

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 […]

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Dropping The Vote, Nov. 6, 2018

November 6, 2018 by

  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 […]

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Cultural Exchange Without Leaving Home

August 23, 2018 by

  Last night my cultural exchange student, better said as ‘our’ cultural exchange student, prepared dinner for seven.   And the kid can cook.   I know the difference when someone mails it in from the kitchen. How? Because someone I know tried doing it for years.   Me.   Now I’m much better and […]

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Five Miles From Tigard Equals Yellowstone?

August 18, 2018 by

  Looked for wildlife far and wide from Idaho to Wyoming to Montana and Washington.   Then I looked near Tigard in the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge five miles from home in Oregon.   There was more wildlife in one place than there was in four states.   Go Tigard, Go.

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BROADWAY ROSE MAMMA MIA: I WENT AGAIN AND LIKED IT MORE IF THAT’S POSSIBLE

June 28, 2018 by

    The first time I saw Mamma Mia: The Play, Kevin Pritchard still worked for the Portland Trail Blazer. It was about six years back when Portland had a guy who built the Blazers by ‘Pritch Slapping’ the NBA before he got fired for too much ‘Pritch Slapping.’   Mamma Mia: Touring Broadway Show […]

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