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BOOMERS MOVE AWAY FROM THE FOURTH ESTATE

May 5, 2014 by

The News? We’re Talking About The News? Print journalism shines brightest when a lowly reporter speaks truth to power. Woodward and Bernstein wrote about President Nixon and you know how that turned out. Who’s been a go-to reporter since then? Mario Lopez? Once you hit the big time in books and movies based on your […]

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LAST WEEK ON BOOMERPDX . . .

April 19, 2014 by

Every blogger knows the golden rule: ignore your blog and it will die. No one like a dead blog, an abandoned blog that leaves you wondering what went wrong. Show life, blog life, in each post, each line. Listen to the words you choose and find the music. It’s okay to change your tune if […]

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GUEST BLOGGING ON BOOMERPDX

March 27, 2014 by

Good Idea Or A Passing Fad? None other than the great Jon Morrow says guest posting is still the best blogger game going.He knows this stuff. His blog grows by leaps and more leaps with each post. Today a blogger guest posted for him. He said all the right things, but the one that hit hardest was the […]

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INTERPRETING AARP’S TOP TEN BABY BOOMER ALBUMS

February 26, 2014 by

A Top Ten list never includes everyone’s picks, but who doesn’t trust AARP? They’ve got their finger on the public pulse, especially the public with silver threads running through their hair paint like mine. It’s a nice list with a few omissions which I’ll add toward the end of this Portland baby boomer take. For younger readers I’ll list […]

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YAHOO CALLS OUT BABY BOOMER DEBT

February 11, 2014 by

Why can’t they get the numbers right. UPDATE: Baby Boomer Birth Years run from 1946-1964. It’s more a reminder than an update, which is important when a Yahoo writer fits boomers age into the 65-74 age bracket. I’ll do the math. The youngest boomers turn fifty this year. Their life span runs from 1964-2014. So […]

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A YOU SANDWICH FOR THE ME GENERATION

February 5, 2014 by

You’ve heard of the ‘Wish Sandwich?’ That’s two pieces of bread and you wish you had something between them. (Originally posted on boomeon.com) As baby boomers, we are what’s in between, with kids on one side, parents on the other. The classic examples show kids living at home and grandparents in dire health. My sandwich […]

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THE USEFUL PORTLAND BOOMER BLOGGER

February 4, 2014 by

The Common Question. What is it you ask when you meet someone new? Networking people want to know, “What do you do?” So do most others, but they won’t admit it. They don’t want to seem pushy. Portland business is polite business. When you meet others in a regularly planned gathering it’s not a question of what […]

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Powell’s Books, Phillip Margolin, And Worthy Brown’s Daughter

January 23, 2014 by

Listen to a man say he writes but only took one college writing class. He admits to grinding out a C+, then says he’d like to talk to an MFA fiction expert one day to learn how writing really works. The same man tried writing historical fiction for thirty years. He took one history class. If the main question of history is, […]

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Pushing The Brand, Pushing The Baby Boomer, And The N-word

January 18, 2014 by

Once you decide your business direction, and the name you want to carry, how do you move forward? Experts say to engage with your audience, your clients. Do that and risk getting tagged with the N-word. You’re a narcissist is you make it all about you. But it is all about you, right? It’s your […]

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Author Jill Kelly Speaks To Willamette Writers

January 8, 2014 by

She Tells Her Truth, The Writer’s Truth, Inside The Old Church. What do you buy a know-it-all for Christmas? Not an encyclopedia. What do you give a writer? A membership to the Willamette Writers always works. If that was a present to the writer in your life, then the first Tuesday in January would have […]

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