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CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AND US

Cultural institutions like new members.
They like to get people involved and interested.
It’s a good idea, unless you’re like me and had no idea what an institution is.
Or what culture is.
Now I know, and it’s just in time.
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HOW TO GROW UP BETTER THAN YOUR PARENTS

It’s time to grow up, but there’s still a question?
How to do it right.
Based on empirical evidence gathered through observation, documentation, and experimentation, in other words the most popular posts on boomerpdx all time, I have some solid advice.
It’s not advice for those set in their ways, resistant to change, and waiting to die.
It’s for those with a little more life in their years, if not years in their life.
About that evidence–that’s it in the top image. Let’s go grow up:
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MAKE MONEY, BE STRONG, THEN WHAT

A life goal is to make money?
If that’s the goal, and you accomplish it, what kind of a life to you have?
Now you can relax and slow down?
That’s not what billionaires do, so why would you?
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Neck Cancer … What Is It Good For … Absolutely Nothing

A reader left a comment recently that moved me to respond in a universal way.   Hey Patrick,   Thanks for coming over to boomerpdx. A quick question: How did you find me and this topic. I write about it a lot, but not too many show up in comments like you. I’m glad you’ll […]

VETERAN SOLUTIONS FOR VETERAN PROBLEMS

If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of veteran problems. The biggest veteran problems come when those who served say, “I didn’t sign up for this.” What is the ‘this’ in “I didn’t sign up for this?” The ‘this’ veterans talk about is the hard part for non-veterans to understand. Even veterans of […]

THE VIEW THROUGH PORTLAND EYES

Life Changes Year By Year With Portland Eyes. They arrive in pairs, young and old, men and women, all showing the gift. Everyone knew the drill inside the macular degeneration clinic in the middle of the Portland. Of each pair of people, one was getting eye treatment. How does it work? “I’ll move from room […]

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PROPERTY OWNER FROM THE OTHER SIDE

    What to expect from the property owner process that never ends, changes in the middle, and no light the end of the property owner tunnel to hell.   From behind the seductive eyes of a city’s economic development officer:   I see the likes of you come in here all day, every day. […]

MODERN MILITARY GENIUS MISTAKE

How does military genius work? Start with technology. Military genius understands the role of technology. They’re geniuses for a reason. And they study stuff. Military genius comes in two flavors, weapons and tactics. It doesn’t take a genius to understand the evolution of weapons. Tactics are harder. The knife wins hand to hand fighting. The […]

BOOMER ARMY RACE RELATIONS, 1974

The time Army race relations got it right. In the early stages of the All-Volunteer Army, recruiters filled the ranks with whoever showed up. The draft ended, so most of the smart guys stayed out of the way of The New Army. The people who did show up had their own agendas. Some wanted college […]

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Boomer Tuna And The Deep Blue Sea

What To Expect On The Ocean. Is there a greater bonding experience than a family and friends fishing trip? An overnight on the high seas drives it all the way home. You may know your family and friends on land, but do you know them as fishermen sixty-five miles offshore? While you plan, keep a […]

Run Away From Home, Family, Life. But To Where?

If you were lucky growing up you couldn’t run away. Well you could, but would you end up someplace better?   My hometown is North Bend, Oregon. I attended the same grade school, junior high, and high school all in the same school district. So did most of my graduating class.   We didn’t hear […]

PORTLAND BLOGS: TOP TEN ACCORDING TO RANKER.COM

    What’s it take to make the top ten list of Portland blogs. If you read ranker.com, the answer is be a newspaper since Willamette Week and The Portland Mercury top the the list at #1 and #2.   I’m not complaining that newspapers and blogs shouldn’t be compared but if it was my […]

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