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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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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 […]

BILL GATES KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HPV AND HIV?

    Bill Gates is not a doctor. Nor is he a college graduate. So how is it he’s smart enough to know the difference between HIV and HPV?   This is a man smart enough to give medical advice to the most powerful man in the world, leader of the Free World, President Donald […]

CANCER MEMOIR FROM SMART GUY WITH HPV CANCER, AND IT’S NOT ME

  Michael D. Becker wrote his cancer memoir titled ‘A Walk With Purpose.’   By all accounts he’s lived a life with purpose, so the walking with purpose stuff is expected. He walks with purpose, so do you.   So do I. We all walk with purpose. If not we’re just wandering around aimless, without […]

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The Car, The War

What’s the difference between a mobile society and a mobile war? You find out when the warriors hang up their guns. It’s how they drive down their familiar town road after trailing an IED blast in Iraq. Drive faster? Slower? Don’t drive?

BOOMER ENTREPRENEUR: GOOD IDEA?

Our newspaper of record, the Oregonian/oregonlive.com, broke the boomer news. Baby Boomers too young to retire and too old to hire embrace what they’ve always embraced: Themselves. Can’t believe it? The book ‘I’M OK, YOU’RE OK’ started out with a working title of ‘I’M OK, I’M OK, I’M STILL OK, OK?’ The ME GENERATION reminds […]

World’s Factory: China Fills Big Box America To The Brim

  The world’s factory, otherwise known as China, fills big box America from Costco to Target to Walmart.   From Home Depot to Lowe’s the world’s factory supplies America with the suburban necessities.   If it’s electronic components, or sporty textiles, or steel, look for the Made in China tag. You won’t have to look […]

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PORTLAND CELEBRATION SUNDAY

Make Portland Celebration Sunday every Sunday in Portland. Kris Krisofferson wrote a song for Portland Celebration Sunday. It probably works in other cities, too, but BoomerPdx likes Portland. On a Sunday morning sidewalk I’m wishing Lord that I was stoned ‘Cause there’s something in a Sunday That makes a body feel alone. And there’s nothin’ […]

Portland Bird Flip To The Rest Of You

    The Portland bird is one thing, the Portland bird flip a whole ‘nother thing.   If it’s not this, it’s that for Portland. Close to the mountains, close to the beach, and if the pace of new building is any indicator, close to the new neighbors.   Like any city over a certain […]

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE LIVES IN BEAVERTON OREGON

  The Original Practice Shakespeare Festival staged Much Ado About Nothing Saturday night. It felt like a homecoming at the Elsie Stuhr Center. From pre-school to seniors and everyone in between, the OPS players dominated the room. William Shakespeare lives in Beaverton, if only for one night. But it’s more.

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