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A Decent Man “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” MLK Jr. It’s easy to feel frustrated with the state of today’s political landscape.…
As if your life depended on it. Existential: concerned with existence, especially human existence This upcoming election, I believe, is truly that high-stakes. The madman in the White House must…
I was having a hard time last week. Some kind of cold or flu bug had me coughing and hacking, felt chilled, then overheated, then chilled again. You know the…
I don’t know if my father ever said those exact words, but I got the idea that was what he believed. I never once saw him at the stove, never…
Let’s get over it. What else can be said at this point? The man-child is a crude, cruel, deeply narcissistic, evil, wannabe dictator, who has done irreparable harm to our…
I recently had reason to drive into the city, into Portland. I wasn’t looking forward to the journey, or to being in the city I once called home. I’m no…
Dangerous and Out of Control Today trump spoke at the United Nations and, not surprisingly, embarrassed both himself and our country. Once again, the blowhard threated to “annihilate the Islamic…
“They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings, steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king.”…
Every day is normal and every day is insane. That’s the world we live in now—or, at least the one I live in. I imagine that this situation, under trump…
Today the pelicans returned, hundreds of them. I hadn’t seen them for a time and missed them, soaring over the surface of the waves like they do. They’re really quite…
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