Nighttime view of downtown Portland, Oregon, featuring the Hawthorne Bridge lit with purple and red lights and a glowing Ferris wheel spinning near the waterfront. The city skyline rises behind the bridge under a cloudy, pink-tinted sky, with reflections of the lights shimmering on the Willamette River.

dispatches from hell… sorry, I mean, Portland… 01

October 9, 20251 Comment

When I was a kid, we had drills. Fire drills. Earthquake drills. Soviet-bombing drills. That was pretty much it. I’m nearly fifty now. The active shooter and lockdown stuff came later, when my daughter was in school. Back then, there were only two moves: Get the fuck out of the building in an orderly fashion. … Continue reading dispatches from hell… sorry, I mean, Portland… 01

Interior view of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, looking upward toward the soaring ceiling and branching columns that resemble a stone forest. Light filters through colorful stained-glass windows, casting warm tones of red, orange, and blue across the geometric vaults and intricate details overhead.

No One Sees the Dial

September 18, 20251 Comment

I started the morning with a video a friend sent me. In it, a guy was talking about his workout attitude. He had been all-or-nothing. If he couldn’t do it perfectly, he wouldn’t do it at all. That hit me. Hard. I’ve been circling around this idea for years: literal thinking, binary thinking, the trap … Continue reading No One Sees the Dial

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dispatches from hell… sorry, I mean, Portland… 01

No One Sees the Dial