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WHO ARE D-DAY MILLENNIALS

June 5, 2016 by

You’ve seen comments for D-Day Millennials on social media. It’s not good, those comments. They start with remarks on a ‘safe place’ and move to ‘what kind of pussified men are we raising?’ Consider the sources if you can. Unless it’s Sergeant Rock talking, don’t get too concerned. Most of the time it’s men and […]

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BABY BOOMER ANTHOLOGY, A LIFE IN COMMON

May 20, 2016 by

Every family has a man with so much backbone you’d think he has two of them. Such a man might have been injured on the job and took up another line of work. Maybe that man was a logger who broke his back in the woods and took up ranching. His biggest regret was missing […]

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WILWRITE 1, TRAIL BLAZERS 0

May 4, 2016 by

Picking two winners on the same night? Good luck with that. Tuesday night was Willamette Writer, WilWrite Night, for WordPress at Portland’s Old Church, and Game 2 in the NBA playoffs in California. Which one to focus on? With time for one or the other, which one to choose: a power point presentation on WordPress, […]

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TIGARD POLICE EVENT: NEIGHBOR RELATIONS, PT3

May 3, 2016 by

Are you good at neighbor relations? Want to be better? After talking to the Tigard police and the woman who owns the house the Tigard police event centered on, what’s next? One of the men who drives a diesel farm truck up and down the quiet roads sat in his rig while I mowed my […]

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FIELD BLOGGER BREAKDOWN

April 26, 2016 by

When a field blogger in the field gets locked out. There I was, gentle BoomerPdx reader, in the field. A field blogger. Just outside was blue sky, bright sun, and a swimming pool with northern lights at night. It wasn’t night time, not yet, when I found my problem. The problem wasn’t the temptation to […]

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SENIOR TRAVELER, DOLLAR RENT A CAR ANGEL, AND BOOMERPDX

April 25, 2016 by

Senior traveler gets an assist from Dollar Rent A Car agent. If you’re a senior citizen, or traveled with seniors, you know how it works. Caution is the word of the day. Air travel makes your feet swell. Maybe your entire leg. The airplane bathroom seems like a mile away. Lifting carry on bags into […]

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MY ADVICE TO TRUMP, or #MyAdviceToTrump

April 13, 2016 by

#MyAdvideToTrump: Big Picture leaders need to keep a focus on the small things. It’s not about how much ground you cover, but how high you soar. This isn’t the time to lay down and rest, Mr. Trump. You may be sixty nine years old, but you have the explosive energy of a sixty eight year […]

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PORTLAND MILLENNIAL PATIENCE IMPROVES

February 26, 2016 by

They want it all, and they want it now, but Portland millennial patience stays strong. The best of the best? Remember what that looked like, or sounded like? Experience, knowledge, and training used to guide American through it’s darkest nights. Once we had nothing to fear but fear itself. Shine that light. Baby boomers’ moms […]

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CRUISING PORTLAND CANCER CLUSTER: AN URBAN EVENT

February 21, 2016 by

Does the name Portland Cancer Cluster sound like run for your life? Should it? One lovely afternoon I sat in a Division Ave food court/food cart pod for a beer with a dear friend. We were surrounded by the sounds of urban joy that make Portland such a desirable location. Young moms and dads talked […]

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PASS THE HALF ASS, PLEASE?

February 12, 2016 by

The Math: 1/2 Ass + 1/2 Ass = 0. Or, > half ass. You’re thinking two halves equal a whole. Most of the time that’s true. In this equation it’s also true, but with extras: In an unprecedented alpha-numeric formula worthy of Einstein-level research, two half-asses equal a whole. An a-hole. In our regular lives […]

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