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  • Snow Day Part 2

    The snow is still here. So is the ice. Covering the city from east to west, it holds thousands hostage in its glacial grip. Snowmageddon Portland rages on. Many people are complaining. “I have cabin fever!” they post on social media. “When will #snowmageddon end?!” they wail. “Please please PLEASE don’t close the schools another…

  • Until It’s Not

    My daughter and I were sitting on the front porch yesterday, enjoying the sun and visiting with each other. Just home from her freshman year in college, she’s brimming with excitement for the summer ahead and having time off from her studies to work and earn some money. “I wonder what we were doing on…

  • Options

    When all is said and done, what we think we want more than anything is options. It’s not so much the thing (i.e.the mansion, the Tesla, the month-long vacation in Bali) that options afford. It’s having the option to have the thing if we so choose. Never in our history have we had as many…