Portland has its occasional snow. This winter is a whole new experience. Growing up in Chicago, when the snowstorms came, so did the snow plows and salt. The city was prepared and jumped into action. Portland, on the other hand, … Read More
So this wraps up my first year of writing this blog. I thought I would be a little more consistent about writing when I got started, but hey, this is number twenty-eight, so I guess I did have something to say. … Read More
During the second half of the 1970’s, I lived in and around Oakland, CA and worked for high-end office furniture manufacturer Modern Mode, or MMI, as in “2001”. I started there just as the company had a major growth spurt … Read More
Yes, I admit it. I am a hoarder. Though you won’t find cascading piles of newspapers through the house or insane collections of useless items. Well, OK, maybe slightly insane… But, the hoarding I do is on the computer. After … Read More
During the early 1970’s, I spent a couple years living in Los Angeles, going to Art Center College and working for a company that designed and created miniature model kits. The picture above is a painting I made of the … Read More