When a lifelong pianist's memory fadesAll his life, Steve Goodwin had been a private man. No matter the circumstances, he'd say he was doing just fine. But as he sat in his Wilsonville, Oregon, home that Monday morning, he wasn't fine. Over the weekend, he'd argued with his youngest… May 14 17May 14, 2017Article at TheWeek
How This Man Got His Stolen Laptop Back Teaches a Powerful Lesson in ToleranceTo celebrate his girlfriend’s birthday, Luke Fortune drove from a small town in Central Oregon to Portland, where he parked his car in a paid garage overnight. The next morning, he discovered that the car’s window had been smashed, along with his… Jan 27 17January 27, 2017Article at Reader's Digest
He Waited 39 Years to Apologize to the Teacher He Wronged. Too Late to Say Sorry?When he was 12 years old, the boy did something he only later realized probably hurt his seventh-grade teacher. It was minor—he was, after all, a kid. But in time, when he was older and wiser, he wanted to find this teacher and apologize. But the… Jan 22 16January 22, 2016Article at Reader's Digest
How A Deejay For the Developmentally Disabled Became a Community HeroIt’s 6:30 p.m., and Angela Fox is early. Although the klieg lights at the Mt. Scott Community Center in Portland, Oregon, have already been dimmed, the dance has yet to begin. Fox stands shyly by the coat-check table, awaiting familiar faces. At 43,… Jul 10 13July 10, 2013Article at Reader's Digest
A Widow Set out to Scatter Her Husband’s Ashes in the Woods—Soon She Was LostJoseph Sohm/Shutterstock For 34 years, Jean and Jack Geer doted on each other as they moved from San Francisco to Hawaii to, finally, Port Angeles in Washington State. Then, in December 2016, Jean walked into their bucolic backyard and found Jack… Article at Reader's Digest
He Was a Gangster. She Was His Prosecutor. Now Their Unlikely Friendship Is Changing Lives.Photograph by Christopher Onstott DeQuandre Davis’s father was a legend, a feared and respected leader of the Crips until rival gangsters shot him dead on a Portland, Oregon, street in 1990. He left behind a one-year-old, a son who would be schooled… Article at Reader's Digest
