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BABY BOOMERS GROW UP?

How can you tell when boomers grow up? When you wonder how you got where you are, it’s nice to have a reminder. Find a place that’s yours, where it would take some nosing around to find. That’s where the Shelf of Fame goes. It’s not for everyone to see, just a reminder of your […]

BLOGGING FOR ASPIRING WRITERS

The difference between an aspiring writer and a blogger? Story. A recent boomerpdx reader sent this comment about aspiring writers: Superb blog! Do you have any suggestions for aspiring writers? I’m planning to start my own blog soon but I’m a little lost on everything. Would you recommend starting with a free platform like WordPress […]

VIRAL BLOG VIRAL BOOMERPDX

Call it viral blog viral boomerpdx, per capita. Viral blog are the magic words. Viral blog means viral boomerpdx. This is viral boomerpdx, if we agree on viral numbers. If you’re reading this and you think, “This could be a viral blog, this could be viral boomerpdx,” please don’t send gray-hat links that may or […]

YOUR MOMMA IS SO PORTLAND MOMS BLOG THAT…

Portland baby boomerpdx blogger meets Portland Moms Blog blogger in a parking lot. Does a web address across the back window of a car in Haggen’s parking lot mean ask me about it? So I did. Jen Knight turned out to be sunshine on a cloudy day; the Portland Moms Blog founder, owner, and power […]

WRITING FROM THE HEART (WHAT TO LEAVE OUT)

Do you practice writing from the heart, or even plan to? Romance writers practice writing from the heart, even when their stories take a turn for the worst. Action writers do it, writing from the heart, just to remind you they’ve got one. Adventure writers fill pages with writing from the heart to make you […]

BABY BOOMER BLOGGER RAG

When you’re a baby boomer blogger, you rag, that’s what you do. But are you good at it? If you’re a baby boomer blogger and you’re not good at ragging it out, find a way. You don’t want to be left behind, the one who didn’t rag enough. Like Robert Kennedy said, “If not you, […]

BLOGGING THE YOU INTO YOUR BLOG

Right now you’re thinking BLOGGING THE YOU into your blog is easier if you’re famous. If being famous is the goal, be famous for you, not that other blogger. You’re it. Everyone else is taken.      

MUHAMMAD ALI, BEN AFFLECK BATMAN, GATSBY PTSD GUIDED BOOMERPDX IN 2015

What would the Gatsby PTSD, Ben Affleck Batman, and Muhammad Ali do? 2015 has been a rough year. How rough? Lemme tell ya, (loosens tie, stretches neck.) When BoomerPDX began I reviewed a feature length documentary. Suddenly I’m an expert on something I don’t know much about, apart from one doc. I was pulling traffic […]

DE-POLICE PORTLAND

Does Portland in de-police make a better city? “We used to be judged on our work ethic. How many stops, how many contacts, how many calls.” “That was police work?” “That’s police work, what used to be police work. Still should be. You get to a point in a police career where you feel the […]

ON WRITING WELL, pt. 2

Have you told others you’re a writer? What do they say? My first book set was Zane Grey. Every birthday and Christmas I got a box from Grandma with a book. They went unread then and still are. Never a fan of the fake Western, the books came into play as reading material for my […]