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Understand Your Value: Look Behind The Rock (I'm not posting things like this on my social media anymore. The trolls and angry people are...

Heading Home We are blessed people, Kathy and me. Our visit back to Oregon has been great. We got to meet up with so many of you, some...

Rethinking Life I can’t think of anything I like better than interviewing people. I never prepare questions, I never have. People often...

Cool Has A Price I always feel sad when I leave our beach house in Pacific City, Oregon. Even as a kid, leaving a vacation was hard for...

Little Nudges From God It’s hard for me to look beyond the ridiculous sometimes. Right now, in the world we live in, there is plenty of...

Will The Fog Finally Clear I’m Excited & Nervous for Oregon (Will The Fog Finally Clear) Oregon has a shot at breaking up one of the...

Before I Die In White Salmon Washington, located in the heart of downtown, is this kiosk chalkboard, with the words “Before I Die” and...

Make room for surprises and embrace them. Don’t shy away from risk even when it scares the hell out of you. Kathy and I were talking last...

The Winds of Change There’s a breeze blowing through the mountains, the valley’s and over the plains in America. Like the Fall season...

The Boy in the Back of the Room God often places the most unlikely messengers in our lives but I wonder that we aren’t so busy trying to...

Stay In The Deep End The thing that helps no one, is a dead calm. Oh, we think calm sounds so peaceful but movement only happens when...

It’s Easy To Get Off Track Is it me or do you feel overwhelmed by what is going on in the world right now? From a worldly point of view...

Sometimes you Mend and Sometimes You Don’t. There is a time to build fences and a time to rip them down. I’m in a phase of doing both....

Canyon Ferry Overlook AirBNB When Kathy and I started dreaming of leaving Oregon and moving to Montana, one of the things we wanted to do...

That’s Not Happening https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChpSDG9lhMy/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet In the clip I shared with this blog...

A Storm Is Here I awoke this morning to the pounding thunder and flashing of light outside my bedroom. The hole house shook and rattled...

Elements of a Mentally Healthy Life. It seems when we think of health our minds go straight to the physical. But I think the last two...

Gone Missing: Local Team Out To Find Them. Imagine someone you love disappears and no one can help you find them. Right now, in Lane...

Time To Get Uncomfortable “If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; If you look for comfort you will not get either...

We’ve Only Got So Much Time On This Earth Life is not forever on this planet. We each have a number and one day that number will be...