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 The sun sets on my time in The Columbia Gorge. * * * I'll be seeing sunsets on the coast 300 miles south of here: * * * I'll be an hour or so closer to Crater Lake: and my new partner in life has never seen it. I can change that.  I've been to…

 I really believe in "all things in their own time". That involves a lot of waiting and a kind of faith. It is time for this:   *****  

 The Group Home that I've worked at most is out in the Columbia Gorge.  It's a 54 mile round trip that I have never really minded; it takes me through Great Beauty. The House is about a mile from Women's Forum Overlook, the first good glance into the Columbia Gorge: On the right, you ca...

I never questioned or felt bad about K*'s non-involvement with any of the child support stuff. It really began before we got married, and wasn't even my problem until more than 3 years after our divorce. It really didn't have much to do with her, but she didn't forsake me either, she helped me an...

I moved my desk a while back, from the far right side of the apartment into more or less the center of my studio apartment and now, to my left I have a view out the window of glass that is the outside wall in the sleeping area of the apartment. I was sitting here…

 Fifteen years ago tonight: I had that car, a 1985 Mercury Marquis, just ten days before I wrecked it on the Morrison Bridge here in Portland. This is the only picture I have of it, courtesy of the Portland Fire Bureau. My shoulder belt broke and I was flung into the dashboard as the engine&...

31 years ago today, I went to Navy Boot Camp in San Diego, California, on the "Buddy Program" with a high school friend of mine. I was 20 years old, and living in the YMCA in Pasadena, California. Life was looking good, looking forward, but looking back, I was "escaping" the Y...

 No, TG, they didn't send A home on Friday or Saturday - he is far too sick from the pain meds to even move an inch without feeling much pain and nausea.  He's like a hurt dog - snappy and bites at pain and snarls at others, and you know he wouldn't mean it at…

 There are times I miss that job, distributing the Oregonian newspaper... But no one buys the paper any more, and I got in on the last act of it anyway - story of my life, I sometimes think. Almost 7 years of that, amazingly, 7 years of weekends and a few of Dailies too.  …

I turned 51 10 days ago. Surprise, surprise! I re-grew the beard I shaved off in 2007 or 8 this year: I shaved if off  because I was a school bus driver then and thought that the kids would think I was OLD, since it was already getting "frosted" with white, as was the hair…