I am glad to spend time at my mother’s. There’s a pool to swim in when it’s warm and lots of room to bring friends. Mostly, it’s Mom and me as she slows. Or maybe slows is the wrong word. As she leaves.

Portland's current judicial system/activist class could not have rolled out any more of a red carpet to the man who murdered Rachael Abraham, a mother of six, three of whom were in the next (or the same) room as their mother as stabbed and strangled to death. Which begs the question: What are you...