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Boomer House

First Published On Boomercafe.com (click on over)   Memo to young families: Pay attention to other parents as the years pass. You’ll see them again. My kids are in their twenties now, but for one pre-school birthday we invited kids and moms from the class. I was too busy on the ‘entertainment’ side and didn’t notice the adults. Working […]

Boomer Writers

Willamette Writers Meet In The Old Church Everyone has a story to tell. The group who meet once a month at Portland’s Old Church have a story to write. From the looks of them, it’s a non-denominational crowd, but the spirit is present. Last night was no different, except the speaker had more than a little preacher […]

Boomer Men Who Nurture

And The Dogs Who Love Them Tell the truth. You like to nurture. Admit it. You’ve learned how, and you like it. Some say a nurturer is born that way; others say it’s a result of a caring environment. You say the sooner you choose one or the other, the better. That’s not a green light to grow […]

A Christian Burghardt Moment

Portland Baby Boomers Know The Sound When They Hear It Every boomer has a musical moment, a memory of a singer or song so big it overwhelms them still. And it’s better than anything you’ve got because they heard it first. The Who do it. Johnny Cash makes it happen. Let It Be? There are no toppers. […]

Baby Boomer Sports Fan

Boomerpdx Takes The Road Least Traveled On Purpose As a contributing columnist for Oregon Sports News I focus on the world of sports for the most fascinating stories. My research goal is to find the compelling story behind the leading headlines. With that in mind, the news of former PAC12 and NBA player Jason Collins announcing his […]

Sutton Sorensen And The Boomer Song

Baby Boomers know how to listen to live music. We learned from John Fogarty singing Lodi with Creedence Clearwater Revival: “If I only had a dollar For ev´ry song I´ve sung And ev´ry time I had to play While people sat there drunk” Drunks ignoring live music? It still happens. When it doesn’t, you notice. […]

BOOMER SON IN FOREVER YOUNG ENGLAND

  News from England arrived late. It touched home.   The story is pretty straight forward in the paper. “A Cambridge man charged with two attempted murders in a vicious street brawl in the city centre appeared in court yesterday.  Karl Eldin, 18, from Glebe Road, denied attempting to murder Alexander Lloyd and Ian Watters outside the […]