By Gary Topping– We love our backyard, which is carved out of a wooded mountainside just outside the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon. There is a low, split-level deck which…
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By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Standing in my makeshift COVID-19 basement home office one recent overcast day, a rather dismal conversation stormed in my head. Death tolls. Infections. Risks. Layoffs. 60…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– I have many old friends in—and fond memories of—my boyhood hometown of Ogden, Utah. Only one, however, beckons me back there in the dark dead of…
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…
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…