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GOOGLE SEARCH ON HOW TO SCREW UP YOUR LIFE, pt 1

January 12, 2017 by

A google search on DIVORCE gives the numbers. Research or bad omen?   From facebook posts to google search, you learn how to interpret your relationship. It works best if you have a relationship like marriage going on. If not, keep reading. You might find something useful for other relationships. Ask any long time marrieds, […]

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LOOK HOMEWARD HILLBILLY ANGEL, LOOK HARD

January 7, 2017 by

What does a hillbilly see when they look homeward?   From all appearances I’m not the only blogger with a Thomas Wolfe fixation. Yet anyone who takes the time to look homeward as an adult, especially an adult writer with a Thomas Wolfe problem, sees the past in new light. Hard reading does that, which […]

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ARE BLOGS A CONNECTION CONDUIT?

December 27, 2016 by

When the message strong enough, blogs can be a connection conduit? A recent comment on a past post will test the idea of a connection conduit. I don’t do social media and don’t even know if this message will be received by anyone. Message received, loud and clear. I would really like to contact Aaron […]

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A PLACE CALLED MARRIAGE? PASS THE MAP HONEY

December 24, 2016 by

Only a wedding cartographer knows the road to a place called marriage.   Alain de Botton wrote “Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person” for the NY Times. As a married man with two kids, what does Alain’s wife make of his prediction? If he’s the wrong person, is she the right one? These are […]

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YOU HAVE FEELINGS? DO THEY SAY HAPPY?

December 19, 2016 by

  HOW TO TELL IF YOU’RE HAPPY You’ve heard it before, whether you’re ten, thirty-four, or seventy-four years old. Balance. Say it like they said, “Plastic,” in The Graduate. Life, or a good life, depends on balance. Think moderation. Most of the time you hear this and nod and agree like the fat man who […]

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OREGON’S BOOMER BLOGGER

November 9, 2016 by

An interview with BoomerPdx, Oregon’s Boomer Blogger   You are Oregon’s boomer blogger? How did that happen? By default. Baby Boomer bloggers seem obsessed with two things. Dating and retirement dominate that part of the blogosphere. Doesn’t that make sense? As a generation you’re going headlong into the retirement age. As a generation of horn […]

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MAN’S GAME FOR PUBLIC OFFICE?

November 4, 2016 by

If it’s Man’s Game, it comes with Man Talk. Man talk comes in every flavor, in every color of the rainbow. Man’s Game is more straight forward. Man’s Game is harsh and unrelenting. Call it frightening. Men do things others’ can’t do. It’s not our fault that the limits of human achievement, like world records […]

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MILLENNIAL VOTING HISTORY PRIMER

November 1, 2016 by

A BoomerPdx reminder for millennial voting. The biggest block of potential voters hit the polls this month. Is millennial voting up to the task? Are they ready for the burden they’ll strap on with the wrong vote? Look at the elderly man in the picture, also known as President Harry S. Truman. Why the huge […]

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HOW BROKEN HEARTS STAND

October 24, 2016 by

Future Nobel Prize winner Bruuuuce nails broken hearts. Badlands, you gotta live it every day Let the broken hearts stand As the price you’ve gotta pay Broken hearts happen all the time. Hearts break next to you and you don’t hear a thing. Bruce Springsteen sang about broken hearts in Badlands. It fit the song, […]

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WIFE BOSS FROM 1950 TO 2016

September 14, 2016 by

Did Fifties women even listen? Everyone’s got advice on what they don’t know about. They connect dots, paint pictures, and still can’t make you can’t see it. Anytime you reach into recent history, you’re showing stuff with easy proofs, references, sources. Real easy, like millions of pictures, documents, oral histories. Especially with women’s history, a […]

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