If you can talk to your kids, will unrelated millennials listen too? You could tell he was a good guy with good manners. He answered easy questions, but still added value. Twenty four, lives at home, looking for a job. And all you asked was his age? This is part of the millennial […]
HOW TO FIND THE 18-34 DEMOGRAPHIC, aka MILLENNIALS
March 16, 2017 by
What to do if they find you? Turns out the new greatest generation visits BoomerPdx Choice more often than anyone else. Call me surprised, but not really. Those are my people, the people boomers created for the most part. How can you not love that? Baby Boomers grew up with one major […]
WRITE YOUR STORY SOONER THAN LATER
February 14, 2017 by
You can handle your frightening truth, so write your story. Writers inspired by Inspirational Writers lean toward inspirational writing? It seems natural. Buying Gabriele Lusser Rico’s Writing the Natural Way felt just as natural. Who doesn’t need ‘A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Writing Confidence.’ I know I do. I feel more creative […]
STORY ARC, LIFE ARC. SAME THING?
February 13, 2017 by
You can hold a story in your hand, but it’s better on the page. It’s funny how a picture explains everything if you let it. A life arc begins and ends, birth and death and all the stuff in between. But unless you commit to the thousand words a picture might […]
LAUGHING SPAM ENGLISH ON BOOMERPDX. 151K LAUGHS LATER?
February 11, 2017 by
Laughing spam won’t make you fat, throw up, or scream. If laughing spam worked that way, I’d be fat, throwing up, and screaming every day. And I’m not thin, non-urpy, or quiet. Most of the time. Laughing spam is cute. That’s what I’ll call it, cute. It’s so vulnerable with an undercurrent […]
PERSONAL PRIDE vs MIND YOUR OWN DAMN BUSINESS
February 8, 2017 by
Go ahead and be selfish just this once, keep your personal pride personal. Who among us admits personal pride? Raise a hand. All up? Good. Pride for you and yours is a cornerstone of civilization, something to build on. You can tell personal pride people when you see them in full blossom. They wear […]
OVERSHARING, TMI, SETTING NEW BOUNDARIES FOR CHANGE
January 21, 2017 by
Oversharing the wrong thing for the right reason. If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times? You might want to ask why you keep hearing the same thing. Either you haven’t changed, or the people telling you the same thing haven’t change. If the same person keeps telling you the same […]
PRESIDENT OBAMA LETTER TO OREGON’S BOOMER BLOGGER
January 18, 2017 by
Fan letter delivers President Obama letter. What happens after you write a fan letter to the President of the United States? You like their act so you write them to say so. Then forget about it. They’re not looking for a new best friend. Besides he’s got Joe Biden. The memorable part was […]
WRITERS, WRITING CLASSES, ENGLISH DEPARTMENTS
January 14, 2017 by
Best advice from writing classes? College freshman might change their major. More than once. But over and over? Relax, it happens. And it’s not pretty. Finding yourself in college is expensive. Even if Major Changer milks it long enough they finish with a degree others call worthless, as in, “what were you thinking?” That’s […]
