Books On Amazon
-
-
Join 32 other subscribers
- Follow NO CLOCK on WordPress.com
Recent Posts: NO CLOCK
Top Posts & Pages
Category Archives: Uncategorized
Are you a White Supremacist too?
The big, heavy blunt instrument feels so good. Anyone who has swung a sledgehammer knows how productive it feels. But that same person knows that the sledgehammer is indiscriminate. It destroys and often misses the mark. To build and finish … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged judo, racist, The Klan, tribalism, white privilege, white supremacy
Leave a comment
Coward? You May Never Know
I can’t stop thinking about the case of Scott Peterson, the school resource officer at Stoneman Douglas High School. For 5 minutes, as shots rang out in a school building, he chose to wait outside. After 33 years as a … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Broward County Sheriff, Fear, Florida Shooting, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Scott Peterson
Leave a comment
Why Live Music Keeps Me Alive
I saw my first live rock show at 13 years old. In 1968, my mom dropped my buddy Gregg and I at the fair grounds so we could see Iron Butterfly. The opening act, from San Francisco, was called Floating … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Blues Music, Iron Butterfly, Joe Walsh, La Luna, Live Music, Mary Timony, Mississippi Studios, X
1 Comment
What Congress Can Do About Guns…Now!
We have all seen this before. Right? Predictable violence against innocents followed by thoughts and prayers. Grieving people build shrines of flowers and balloons and painted signs. All of the news networks put their anchors on sleek Gulfstream 5 jets … Continue reading
Portland City Hall: It’s the System Stupid
Portland City government is badly broken but not in the way that some people think. The public servants in City Hall work hard in a world of constraints, endless demands and never enough money or time to meet outsized expectations. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged City Government, Garbage Night, Portland, Portland City Commissiners, Portland City Hall
2 Comments
It Was My Hand
We flew down on my birthday. The funeral was the next morning. There are few things as consistently lovely as the Southern California weather in November. We had to be at the staging area at exactly 11:31 AM. Not … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Funeral, Mom, National Cemetery, Redlands, Riverside, Space Program
2 Comments
Sticks and Stones…
Today, George W. Bush made the case against the rise of Trumpism. I don’t doubt the fact that Bush is a genuine patriot deeply concerned about the state of our republic. While I could go into a “lying sack of … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged American creed, George W Bush, Portland, rasist, white supremacy
Leave a comment
The Road Taken — My Second Act
When I take breaks from playing and working outdoors, I find myself streaming The West Wing on Netflix. Besides my fantasy of living in an Aaron Sorkin world where everyone is wicked smart and funny with heads brimming with useful … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged East Holladay Park, Josh, Nick Fish, Panic Disorder, Portland City Hall, Portland Parks, West Wing
1 Comment
An Evening in Pickleandia
If you are ever a little down because so much about Portland has become big and confusing, head out to Lents Park, out beyond 82nd Avenue, to a sweet little place called Walker Stadium. The demise of the Portland Beavers … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged baseball, East Portland, Great West League, Lents Park, Portland Pickles
2 Comments
The 65th Anniversary Celebration
Today is my parents’ 65th wedding anniversary. I wish I could say it was a day of unfettered celebration but for my family it is a day of reflection and some sadness. You see, my mother is in the final … Continue reading
NO CLOCK 