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BOOMER FOUNDATION

April 23, 2013 by

or, HOW MY EIGHTY SIX YEAR OLD MOTHER IN LAW OUT-WALKS YOU You’ve heard the saying “You can’t know someone until you’ve walked in their shoes.” For Portland baby boomers it might be Birkenstocks with socks, which I like. You walk in their footsteps. Or take their path. What’s it mean?

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THE AGING RACE

March 2, 2013 by

NO ONE WANTS TO FINISH FIRST As a writer on Baby Boomer culture, one aspect is unavoidable: end of life decisions for us and our parents. It’s not an every day thought until the time comes, then it’s an every minute thought. One day you’re out on the football field playing while your parents cheer […]

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24HR FITNESS vs $20

February 20, 2013 by

BETTING AGAINST THE ARMY AT THE OSU WALL? 1. Why does Oregon State University have a Marine Corps obstacle course near Gill Coliseum? Because OSU serves the Army, Marine, Navy, and Air Force ROTC. 2. Why would one former wrestler with a bad wing bet another he couldn’t climb over the red wall with the big yellow […]

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HAVE A HEART MONTH

February 6, 2013 by

BOOMERPDX REVIEWS THE CELEBRITY PUMP FIXER-UPPER In everyday life people tell of their heart problems in two ways. 1. “I had a procedure. No big deal.” Or, 2. “My heart problem changed my life.” Both are viable, though one is a wake up call. Grandpa died of a heart attack in the early 60’s. Dad […]

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AUTHORS FOR BOOMERPDX

January 25, 2013 by

Is A Writer’s Birth Order Important Or Not? Zelda? To create better context for Dead White Male Authors, or DWMA, Boomerpdx and Think Tank 121 offers 20th Century giants of letters’ birth order to the general public. Director of Writing / Maintenance, Story Teller, no relation of the physicist Edward Teller, presented a paper from […]

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Sutton Sorensen And The Boomer Song

January 2, 2013 by

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. […]

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BOOMER SON IN FOREVER YOUNG ENGLAND

December 12, 2012 by

  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 […]

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THE HEART OF PORTLAND

December 5, 2012 by

  Urban life grows more imposing the closer you get to Burnside. The pretty lights you see from I-5, the beautiful reflection off the Willamette, disappear once you park your car. Trade wheels on the road for shoes on the sidewalk and the pace slows enough for a good look around. You still see the […]

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