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  • Sales 3 

    Total commission sales is wild. That means it’s all profit or loss and you see it with each decision you make. If you make a sale you get paid, but if you don’t make a sale you don’t. It doesn’t matter how many hours you spent, it’s whether your time was effective.  All of my…

  • Sales 2

    A couple of weeks, I wrote about struggling through my week with several days with no sales. I now can understand a little how realtors feel by going to lots of open houses or car sales people feel after going on lots of test drives. The good news is that I did make a substantial…

  • Back to the Past

    Netflix has the movie Back to the Future playing for the last few days of September, and I watched it last night. It originally came out in the Eighties when I was in third grade.  It was a big deal, everyone was talking about it.  Back then, it was a straight forward adventure story of…

  • Modern Medicine

    Yesterday was the second longest day of this year. I had to get up early to drive out to Tanasbourne early for my biennial Echo. It’s something I have to do to make sure all the tubes and pumps are working in my heart. The hospital is running on a skeleton crew since the pandemic.…

  • Happy Veterans Day

    To those who have fought in wars, and served both here and abroad. To those who now live every day like Clark Kent, knowing you once were Superman. You put away cape and go out every day hiding behind your glasses and doing regular jobs. Thank you for the foes you slew. We remember the…

  • Bag Boys

    Why does the Boomer Generation push back against environmental improvements? I keep getting these posts and memes about how annoying single-use bag rules and plastic straw bans are. Of course I get that it is kind of frustrating when you’re used to having an endless supply of free plastic bags and straws at the store…

  • An Invitation to Connection

    The month of June is called Pride Month by the LGTBQ+ community and our town will be hosting a Pride Party on Saturday, June 3, 12 – 5 pm, at Jerry Willey Plaza near Orenco Station in Hillsboro. I am inviting you to attend along with my family. It will be the first time for…

  • A Flag of a Million Stars

    This spring break, our family did not have any ambitions plans for the week. Mostly it’s just me and the kids at home, venturing out whenever there’s a break between spring weather patterns. Additionally, I had some grading to catch up on too. I am currently teaching a course on Race & Ethnic studies, focusing…

  • Couples Therapy

    Like many couples, Tim and I like to find activities that we both enjoy. One thing we often do is pick out a show to watch together. It gives us something to look forward to when we’re apart and something to discuss when we’re together. During the pandemic, we watched Somebody Feed Phil, a delightful…

  • Dismantling Bias

    At its core, most bias is assuming the inherent immorality of another. “The poor are lazy, or the rich are greedy. City people are violent, or country people are ignorant. This ethnicity is proud while that ethnicity is stubborn, or cheap or rude or manipulative.” The tendency to more harshly judge our neighbor who is…