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Normally, these blogs will be every Tuesday; you are getting this one a day ahead because this Tuesday I am going to be on the road. I...

We live in a lonely time, a time of percieved isolation. Some of us try to alleivate our loneliness with chatbots, use templates like...

Here are five non fiction books I cannot recommend enough

Bezos, Musk, and the others innovated the way we live; they deserve to be wealthy. The thing is, they are wealthy because of a symbiotic...

I had the quintessential Portland experience yesterday…. Heard the music first: “Hot in Here” by Nelly. Who is blasting that old...

When I got back to Portland, there was a large demonstration marching down Burnside. Considering where it was occuring, it is probably...

Morning. The sun on a bay beyond a glass door. Seabirds walk across sand, complain, beat their wings and rise above the bright water of...

Two weeks. You get two weeks vacation a year. Two months ahead you request the time off and hope the weather is good---hope the weather...

I believe in visualization: Imagine your life, see all the details, and that is a means to manifest your “ideal" life. I could tell you...

The subconscious is a machine running silently in the dark. Silent as it may be, it is still a machine.... I have a massive file folder...

We are bound to lose everyone we love. It begins with grandparents. By the time you’re in your forties, all your grandparents are gone....

Trump is many things, but he is not an idiot…so we do we buy him playing the fool? “Gaza…we just need to clear it out, build some very...

I should be working on a book right now… should . I believe in the stories, I think people would enjoy them but…I have no belief in...

Woke: It is Trump’s obsession or maybe just another word to distract us like “poison” or “Greenland.” MAGA has made a mantra of this word...

I live in a conflicted part of Portland. My apartment is on the border of the Pearl---which is full of upscale shops—and Old Town where...

This is not a proper city, this is dystopian hellscape: You don’t have people turning sidewalks into KOAs in a proper city…or using them...

I decided to splurge and have McDonalds delivered. Eating it reminded me of being on the road, those nights I stayed in hotels and would...

People have bands these consider “guilty pleasures.” It could be the Backstreet Boys or Ambrosia or the Carpenters or Nickelback—bands no...

I am about, uhm, seventy-seven percent done with book six of song lyrics/poems. Today I wrote the introduction for it and ahhh here it...

Christmas used to be different. Not better or worse, just different as times are different. Both my families lived in Sacramento,...