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WRITING FROM THE HEART (WHAT TO LEAVE OUT)

February 10, 2016 by

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 […]

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BABY BOOMER BLOGGER RAG

January 13, 2016 by

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, […]

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BLOGGING THE YOU INTO YOUR BLOG

January 5, 2016 by

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.      

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

December 31, 2015 by

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 […]

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DE-POLICE PORTLAND

November 28, 2015 by

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 […]

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ON WRITING WELL, pt. 2

November 16, 2015 by

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 […]

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ON WRITING WELL, pt. 1

November 16, 2015 by

One idea is to write a lot, just not about writing well. As a youth I enjoyed reading about writers and their lives. Their work? Not so much. Writers’ biographies were more interesting than anything they wrote at the time. With the idea that living like a writer would make a better writer, those biographies […]

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PORTLAND COLD CASE

October 31, 2015 by

When A Portland Walking Tour Turns The Corner And You See Portland Cold Case. People love Portland. You’ve probably heard it before. If it’s not the cute shops it’s the funky food; the Portland Building and cast iron building span the years. Public art? Who doesn’t love driving by the eastside ramps off the Hawthorne […]

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BEST PORTLAND BLOGS

July 21, 2015 by

Portland Blogs For Baby Boomers; What Works, What Doesn’t. The best way to know a city is by its blogs. Just make sure you read them before you arrive. If a blog promises “Gorgeous photos of Portland’s neighborhoods, updated daily,” but you get a warning message instead, what do you do? The choices start with […]

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BLOGGER BLOGGING BLOGS

July 19, 2015 by

Writers Write About Writing. It’s called review, writing reviews. If you’re into reviews what would you rather do, write about food and drink and travel, or blogs, or books? My advice on BoomerPdx: Do it all. One benefit of reviewing books is you get free books; a detriment to reviewing books is you get free […]

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