
Girls weekend! My wife, my daughter and my mother-in-law are all headed to the coast. “What are you going to do with your bachelor weekend?” my wife asked. “Have you seen the […]
Girls weekend! My wife, my daughter and my mother-in-law are all headed to the coast. “What are you going to do with your bachelor weekend?” my wife asked. “Have you seen the […]
The studio where Bruce Springsteen made “Born to Run” is a carwash now. An “Auto Spa,” technically, and I guess there are much less sensical options. I mean, once Mary got in […]
I should probably have seen it coming. The signs, after all, were written in the mirror: wrinkles around the eyes, more and more gray in the hair. Less visible was the structural […]
Almost three full months between newsletters. Why? Well, there wasn’t a lot of news. I was head down buried in a project that will hopefully become a bigger project. Newsletter is back, […]
For Metro Parent this month, I examined glitter. To wit: Glitter was the 11th Egyptian plague, and Dante’s 10th circle. The Inuit have many words for snow, but only one for glitter, […]
Very much enjoyed hosting last week’s City Club of Portland forum on whether or not big-time college sports are worth it. I don’t think we solved the problem, but we at least […]
Are big-time college sports worth it? Depends? Unless you got $95 million to throw around. And then definitely.
An excerpt from this week’s newsletter (subscribe) on college football, loving uncles and warm memories: “What I wasn’t expecting was that it would make me homesick. But it did. It happened when […]
Happy New Year, friends. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love a good sunset, and if I had to pick one day from 2014 to take with me into the new year, […]
Reminder: If you’ve got a book you’d like signed for yourself or someone else, I’ll be hanging out at the Old Gold tonight starting at 6:30 p.m. It’s casual, not remotely a […]