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Gotta Put Politics Back in Your Life

Something is frustrating about trying to find moments of joy and relief this summer like a normal person, while it seems like our country and the world around us are falling apart. I try not to dwell too much on whether WE are doing enough to push back against the quickly expanding imperial Trump regime. I know we are all attending rallies, protests, contacting members of Congress, and voting in local elections as ways to stand up against Trumpisim.  At this time, the people and the courts seem to be the only institutions able to put checks on Donald Trump. We the people rally, organize, and make our collective voices heard about his decisions. We write and call members of Congress to urge them to do the job they have always had:  put presidential power in check. Sometimes Trump’s team will do a complete one-eighty after realizing their decision isn’t as popular as they thought.     
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Paul D. Fisher 1951-2025

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  Paul as a toddler Paul Douglas Fisher passed away peacefully in his sleep at Meridian Park Hospital in Tualatin on the evening of February 21, 2025, at the age of 74. His wife and best friend of forty-five years, Karen was at his side til the very end. He was a New Year's baby born on January 1, 1951, in Klamath Falls, Oregon to Philip and Dorothy Fisher while his father was working for Peter Kiewit & Sons as a foreman building highways, dams, and other large infrastructure projects across the Pacific Northwest. He and his siblings traveled wherever work took their father around Oregon, living out of their 1953 Schult House Trailer. One of the things he always laughed about living in the trailer was being tethered outside so he wouldn’t run off on his mother while she was cleaning inside as he was always adventurous, even at such a young age. The family finally settled down in the Portland area in a home built by his parents and extended family.  Paul, his father and sis...
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Get Back on the Wagon

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Some of us are probably still feeling despondent about national election results, maybe even concerned for family, friends, and loved ones about how a potential Trump Administration may treat them. There are lots of unknowns and one of the things I've observed is that Democrats, liberals, progressives, whatever you want to call the coalition that has formed over the last decade to oppose Trump is that those that oppose progress have convinced some of us we don't stand for the issues we've always been supporting. Be it expanding educational opportunities, protecting children, families, and seniors from economic ruin, holding the wealthy and corporations accountable, defending the right of workers to organize, pushing for a better healthcare system, lowering drug prices, capping insulin, raising the minimum wage...I could go on but we both know those policies are for working families. Image taken by NY DNC Delegate 1984 from my collection When I need a reminder of the differe...
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A Morsemas Story

  You better watch out You better not cry You better not pout I'm telling you why Wayne Morse is coming to town At least that’s what I like to think they sang in the winter of 1944 when Oregon’s Senator-elect made his cross country road trip to Washington D.C. He arrived in DC just in time for Christmas. You might be asking why Morse made the long trek by car instead of by train as would have been customary for someone entering the Senate. It was pretty simple. No matter how educated Morse had become at institutions of higher learning he never stopped being a farmer and animal lover.
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