Home for Christmas

In 1997, I remember frantically stuffing everything I owned into 2 large and bulging duffel bags with my name stenciled on the sides. I quickly laced up my combat boots and walked out into the biting Oklahoma wind. I had just finished 16 weeks of hellish training as an artillery observer for the Army.  Having [...]

Quick Portland Photo Summary

Portland, Oregon Photos Rather than get my rusty creative gears turning, I’ve decided to do a summary of my Portland observations in photos.  If one picture is worth 1000 words, then this thing is damn near a novel!  Without further hooplah, here we go.

Walking Portland

Squeak. Squeak. Squeak. That became the new soundtrack to my Portland experience….every time my left shoe hit the ground the annoying squeak would ruin my chances of sneaking past any environmental activists without getting stopped to sign something. I had walked so much around Portland in the last several days that the sole on my [...]

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