One of the many reasons I love Portland so much is the accessibility of our City government. Over the past decade or so, with very few exceptions, I have been able to meet with City Commissioners to discuss issues of public policy. And when I talk about accessibility, I am talking about me as an… Continue reading Visibility Matters
Category: Community
The Little Engine That Might
Anyone who has read this blog knows that I have significant issues with corporate executives’ ignorance of the implications of their actions on their employees and communities they serve. My patience is shortest with the financial institutions whose greed led to the collapse of the worldwide economy. I still wax poetic about the days when… Continue reading The Little Engine That Might
Justifying Mis-steps (and I don’t mean by Sam Adams)
This weekend,Winston Ross, a Newsweek Reporter, interviewed me about media sensationalism and the Sam Adams story. He had read my previous blog post and thought I might have some insights to share. Later in the day, after Sam Adams committed to return to work, I, naively, hoped that we would be able to put the… Continue reading Justifying Mis-steps (and I don’t mean by Sam Adams)
Heralding back to a better day
January 20, 2009 was an emotional, historic and ground-shifting day in more ways that I can count. There have been so many excellent blog posts on how it affected people (I should know, as I have many of them opened in tabs in Firefox so I can catch up on reading them when I get… Continue reading Heralding back to a better day
How to Argue
For reasons that are not entirely clear to me (but a bit worrisome nonetheless) I have found myself picking apart a lot of people’s arguments lately. To be specific, three times in the last week. This is behavior that I usually associate with David. Has our marriage hit that pivotal point where couples start integrating… Continue reading How to Argue
Knowing Me, Knowing You
A month ago yesterday, Chris O’Rourke launched The Great Portland Interview Experiment, and I wrote about it the very next day. Since then @Verso spent two weeks in the land of Disney, and has returned to an unimaginable backlog of stuff, and @melissalion prepared for and hosted BackFencePDX and taught a writing workshop, both of… Continue reading Knowing Me, Knowing You
Some thoughts on branding…
I normally leave comments on branding to others, but today I felt the need to share my two cents on the topic. I use notebooks to jot things down, take notes in settings where a laptop is considered rude (yes, Virginia, they do exist), or when some old technology is called for. I have gotten… Continue reading Some thoughts on branding…
Moving right along, in search of good times and good news…
I know I got a lot of folks excited about my last blog post, and I suspect a bunch of those readers are wondering what comes next. Well, I am pleased to say that serious progress has been made. In the past week: I actually verified (minor detail) with our insurance agent that we could… Continue reading Moving right along, in search of good times and good news…
Getting to know you. Getting to know all about you…
When I ask people who are new to Portland about their favorite part of the city, community always comes up in the short list. We are a city of folks who like to hang out in parks, cafes, pubs and restaurants. Newbies also tell me about how friendly Portlanders are, and how they are quickly… Continue reading Getting to know you. Getting to know all about you…
The World we live in 