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OLD PORTLAND BECAME NEW PORTLAND RIGHT AFTER I MOVED THERE

April 2, 2020 by

The term Old Portland usually applies to the city with pictures of a flood, like the flood of 1861, or the floods of 1894, 1948, 1996. By the way, it rains in Oregon, sometimes a lot. Will that ever change? No, but attitudes will change, have changed. But that’s not the Old Portland on boomerpdx.

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BOOMER PARENTS: HOW KIDS LEAVE A MARK

December 19, 2019 by

A peppy forty-nine year old single man was feeling down, feeling the holiday blues. I did what boomer parents do, I butted in; it’s an auto-response. He said he lived too far away from relatives to visit family and make it all better. I could feel his sadness, so I tried to talk him back […]

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HOPEFUL PEOPLE ARE HELPFUL PEOPLE

November 14, 2019 by

I can’t agree with the conflict between millennials and baby boomers. That’s not what hopeful people do. You won’t agree either by the end of this post. I’ll start at the boomer beginning and go forward from there. You’re going to read some uncomfortable truths, but they’ll make sense and smooth out by the end.

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BRAGGING ABOUT COOKING SKILLS? NEVER, BUT IT STARTS WITH A DRUMBEAT

September 4, 2019 by

Bragging about cooking skills is worse than listening to someone else bragging when you know you’re better. The only thing worth bragging about is keeping people out of the emergency room after eating something you cooked. I don’t brag about my cooking skills for a reason, and it’s not because I’m serving raw or burned […]

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TOM McCALL WATERFRONT PARK SUNDAY

August 19, 2019 by

We’ve heard the same thing all out lives: Get outside. More than once we’ve said it to others. How often do we tell ourselves to ‘get outside?’ That’s what I told myself Sunday and outside meant Waterfront Park in downtown Portland, Oregon. I knew my audience.

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EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION MEANS KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE

August 17, 2019 by

Have you ever tried reaching people, but instead of responding, they lay around like a bunch of logs? Effective communication says there’s two reasons for this: One, they might be logs, and two, you need to work on your presentation. Check carefully to know which is which.

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WHY CHANGE IS A TWO WAY DEAL

August 9, 2019 by

When you know it’s wrong, make an effort to change. I change, you change, we all change. Agree? Whether it’s for the better or not is the final question. Once I changed from blue jeans to green jeans. Since it was in grade school when the dress code was strictly enforced by peer pressure it […]

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PERFECT FATHER’S DAY PORTLAND PRIDE PARADE

June 17, 2019 by

A Portland pride parade shows the city like no other parade on the schedule. Rose Festival parade, Twilight parade, I’ve seen them. Chinese New Year parade? I’ve walked with the dragons twice. I’m kind of a Portland parade guy. I like walking in the streets without having to watch for cars. The wife and I […]

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BON JOVI TABLE vs BAND TABLE

June 14, 2019 by

Bon Jovi table versus the band table had a nice feel to it, like the Sharks and Jets in Westside Story, except without the dancing. One table is all in for one of the sexiest rockers to ever take the stage. Women love him, men want to be him. The other table worked the moment […]

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MOST FEARFUL GENERATION TODAY: INTERVIEW

May 17, 2019 by

And it’s not the big ones The beauty of writing a blog is the feedback from unexpected sources. Most of the reading audience for BoomerPdx is afflicted by the internet ghosts of privacy protection, bashfulness, or worst of all, they’ve forgotten how to work a keyboard, so the feedback I hear is in person, which […]

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