There are people who live in Portland who find it difficult to leave their neighborhood for another part of the city. One could blame parochial attitudes, poor transportation options, or a simple lack of curiosity. This post isn't for them. This post is for the...
Sad Clowns And Vampires Keep Reality TV and News Crews Busy
If you're a clown today, there's a good chance the media will eat your act for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Trump proves this every day. Now, more angry white men with few facts on their side are stepping forward to follow his boisterous lead. Take the invading circus...
2015: The Year In Place
I started tracking my movements about the country a decade ago (and logging them here) as an annual exercise meant to encourage memory, cataloguing and in the best cases a bit of travel writing. Looking back on it, 2015 wasn't a big year in travel, although quality...
A Flexible Strategic Framework Allows You Room To Bend And Move
In business, as in politics, it is wise to build for seismic events. The terror attacks in Paris, for instance, required a flexibile response from The White House that was largely lacking. Conservative columnist, Ron Fournier says, "For all his skills as an orator,...
Bill Jennings Went 1-9 in 1957; Mike Riley Will Top That But Not By Much
Since Frank Solich left Lincoln in 2003, the Nebraska Cornhuskers have been in a free fall. Many of us, myself included, have been in various states of denial about the truth of this, but the fall finally became an undeniable reality yesterday, in the most unlikely of...