By Jathan Janove (Guest Contributor)– My friend Dave Dahl spent over 15 years of his life in prison. He has experienced life’s lowest of the lows and worst of the…
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By Michael Patrick O’Brien– We toured Westminster Abbey just a few weeks after notable scientist Stephen M. Hawking was buried under its floor in June 2018. The interment of the…
By Jathan Janove (Guest Contributor)– Harold Gray is a retired concert pianist and former professor of piano at Portland State University. He grew up in a small town in rural…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– As I stumble through the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, some days I think about a terrible influenza epidemic over a century ago. I learned about the October…
By Jathan Janove Pat Daniels is the Executive Director of Constructing Hope, a Portland Oregon institution that has been instrumental in creating career paths in the construction industry for the…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– “You have breast cancer.” I can still hear those somber words, spoken by a nurse to my wife Vicki (and me) in a small hospital conference…
By Jathan Janove (Guest Contributor)– Concert violinist, conductor, and Distinguished Professor of Violin at Carnegie Mellon University, Andres Cardenes (see his website at: http://www.andrescardenes.com/) and I go back a great…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Some unexpected graces have charmed my diligent efforts to comply with our governor’s stay-at-home and work-at-home coronavirus directives. They are the rose bushes growing just outside…
By Jathan Janove (Guest Contributor)– My friend Max began his career in operations and later became drawn to the human resource field. Before his retirement, Max served as chief human…
By Gary Topping– I grew up on the southern Oregon coast where, so it seems, it rains about three hundred days a year. A high school friend once ventured the…