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A Good Reminder: The Boy With The Shirt I was standing in the WINCO checkout line waiting my turn when I looked over and saw the back of...

Suddenly You’re Concerned With Broken Promises? Okay, I’m not a fan of war. I have a lot of questions about bombing anyone. But I find it...

Can’t Step Around This Mess There are many ways of walking around an emergency rather than walking into it. In the past it feels like we...

We Need More Assimilation If we are a nation of diverse ideas, thoughts and cultures then why don’t we act like it? If this is true, and...

When Tides Turn Landscapes Change If you’ve spent anytime at the Oregon Coast you know when the tides change so does the landscape. The...

It’s Better Than You Think. If you look at the headlines from the past few days you’d think the world and our country are on the brink of...

If You Pay Protestors Does It Make It a Real Protest? I see names of different groups “sponsoring” the big King protest all over America...

They Get Their Say The internet is smothered with coverage of the big birthday party for the President that happens nationwide tomorrow....

Choose To Be A Ralph It really shows when you love what you do. We arrived at the Alaska Airlines ticket counter to a gruff man who is...

The Oregon Pickpockets I’m watching the latest episode of Crazy Oregon News with Bill Lundun and thinking to myself and now out loud, why...

Maybe America Has Woken Up? First, the riots in Los Angeles have to stop. We have people who left their country illegally, flying their...

Let Your Chicken Strip What’s Great about Rural America Her name is….well I can’t tell you. Why? She asked me not to. We’ll call her...

What The Hell is Going on in LA? The hypocrisy going on in America right now makes me sick. We’ve got people destroying Los Angeles...

There Is So Much Corruption I listen to a ton of podcasts. I’m like a sponge when it comes to soaking up information. My wife is too....

Is Pride A Good Thing? I believe each of us gets to live our lives the way we want. There are many gods but the one I serve is all about...

Why Are The Happiest People Poor? I was listening to a podcast yesterday and a surprising statistic rose to my consciousness. Did you...

Where Were You? (for more of this conversation check out our Youtube Channel) https://www.youtube.com/live/8Lj6RMU7yB0?si=Fn6B1Islcx2kCQs...

They Really Don’t Understand I read “An Open Letter “ written by University Of Oregon Journalism and Communications professors. I will...

Great Difficulty Mines The Soul When you give people the opportunity to challenge themselves often times something deep in their soul...

Looking For Lions Not More Sheep I saw a recent post that said “I’m looking for more lions and fewer sheep.” BINGO, that’s exactly what...