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GRACE AND DIGNITY FOR AGING MILLENNIALS

I became my ‘brother’s keeper’ through misjudgment, and it wasn’t my brother but my father in-law.
Same idea, though. I think it’s the same idea.
And it was misjudgment, not a mistake.
What happened?
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NEVER HURTS TO ASK: VOTE BETTER

Baby boomers got a lot from this.
What you can do for your country is vote better.
Or just vote.
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ONE STORY ENDS, ANOTHER BEGINS

At a certain age you know how the story ends.
Things change, someone moves, you drift away.
But you still have memories, sweet memories, and that’s enough?
Noooooo. A good, long, “Noooooooo.”
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WHAT TIME IS IT? WRITING TIME

It’s writing time, so pick up that pen, open that lap top, turn on the faucet, and let it pour.
Is it pouring yet? How about now? Let it out.
You’ve made a decision to write, so write.
What’s the problem? I’ll go first.
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VOTING FOR THE PATH FORWARD, SO VOTE

Take a moment from your busy day and consider, if you will, the path forward.
It’s that way, this way, your way, my way, but it’s forward.
How can you tell if you’re moving forward?
By not falling back. Follow me for more wisdom behind doors number 1, 2, or 3.
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BABY BOOMER FOOT ISSUES SOLVED

Do you have Baby Boomer Foot Issues? Yesterday I jammed my pained tootsie into about twenty shoes. The pain comes with plantar fasciitis, which is supposed to be a heel thing, but got my middle toe instead. I blame a famous shoe brand for bending my foot the wrong direction, then myself for thinking the […]

DIVORCE NEW NORMAL: “WAS IT ANOTHER GUY?”

    Older people, a goal baby boomers are moving toward at hyper speed, have heard more joy and heartache than anyone else. We’ve got at least ten thousand hours in each encompassing most every possible outcome.   At recent bar stop I learned a whole new take on divorce for modern times. It came […]

RADIATION, HYDRATION, SATURATION, REPEAT

      From cancercenter.com Because radiation is used on and in their bodies, some patients mistakenly worry that this automatically means their bodies become “radioactive” after they treatment. Most patients just want to finish radiation and don’t care about the baggage. That comes later. If they beat cancer, they accept the side effects. Once […]

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Another Moment Of All American Serendipitous Patriotism

    “If you’ve ever wondered what you’d have done had you lived during the era of slavery, the Holocaust, or the Civil Rights Movement — whether you’d have stood & spoken up; whether you’d have intervened to help someone or been complicit in harming them through your silence — you have your answer.   […]

BOOMER CHALLENGES NEVER STOP

A common theme among Baby Boomers, the 50-68 year olds born between 1946-64? Boomer challenges. As kids we were challenged to make sense of our Depression-era parents. We never will. The magnitude of desperation in the 1930’s is too hard to grasp. How desperate? Jump out the highest window desperate. Shoot yourself in the brain […]

BOOMERS FIND A WAY, NOT FADE AWAY

Boomers find a way, not fade away, in the time they share. How do you stay relevant or become relevant in something new? Too often baby boomers use the ‘invisible’ excuse as in, “I know I’m invisible because I remember when I wasn’t.” If that doesn’t ring a bell for you, give it a few […]

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MEMORY CUE, EVIDENCE FROM ANOTHER LIFETIME

    How long ago was 1979?   The Brooklyn Union Gas Company makes the call.   How often do you run across things, not your things, that remind you of a different life?   Then it’s your stuff and you don’t remember.

THE OREGON SECRET, part 1

Finally Exposed: Portland Street Car Suspicions… Read the transportation editorial on the Oregonian’s Opinion front page, the sort of benchmark work a newspaper of record addresses online and hard copy. In other words, try and stay awake. No thwarted world terror plans to reflect on. No national shootings of note. Just an honest request to […]

BOOMER STREET

    Baby boomer gets the message. We’ve heard the message all of our lives. It goes like this:   Move over little dog, the big old dog is moving in.   We were once the little dog and moved over for those who knew better. We did what we were told. The idea is […]

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