Our son Luke, hiking the Virgin River in Zion National Park, Utah, this past July. Steve posted this photo as our monitor’s wallpaper today. Luke just left for the airport to schlepp cargo…

Portland voters have another choice to vote on, beyond Measures 49 and 50 – Measure 26-93, which amends the Police and Fire Disability and Retirement program rules. I’m voting YES on all three…

I love Portland. The first thing I was assigned to do, after arriving at Portland International Raceway (PIR) for the emergency exercise with other volunteers from The Salvation Army on Wednesday: Separating paper…

If it really had been blown up, as the TOPOFF4 exercise simulated, Portland would be in deep trouble. More on that soon.

This afternoon, I’ll be in a Hillsboro radio studio with Dave Lister, who once again is guest hosting the Jayne Carroll Show on KUIK, westside talk radio. My segment will air live on…

I don’t know about you, but I was expecting “the largest disaster drill ever” to be a little more… shall we say, disruptive. Bridges roped off, frequent radio bulletins… something noticable to the…

Another photo from Steve’s visit to The Grotto last weekend.

My friend Susan Landauer, super-volunteer in the Portsmouth neighborhood, steered me to the web site of the Little Red Bike Cafe on North Lombard. She says the owners give a discount of 50…