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DUII FOR MILLENNIALS: THE MOVIE

What’s The ‘You’ In DUII For Millennials? You’ve seen the ad on TV? The drunk driving ad? Two young couples out for a good time. Jackets and ties and ladies in nice dresses. Laughing, drinking. Probably have babysitters waiting to go home. More laughing. Then the drive home. The police roadblock. Nobody funny now. The […]

OREGONIAN OF RECORD

When News Leads, The Oregonian Gets There First. Before the internet we watched television news. Walter Cronkite explained how it was before signing off each night with, “And that’s the way it is.” Baby boomers got used to watching the non-telegenic Cronkite’s newscast. No need for a pretty boy like Brian Williams giving the news […]

MILLENNIAL APOLOGY SINKS IN

Why Baby Boomers Need A Millennial Apology.   1. We’re sorry our music is so lame we have listen to classic rock. Who really supports the Stones and Rod Stewart in concert? 2. We’re sorry for thinking we’re smart enough to run the world in our 20’s. We’d be better at it but I’ve got […]

BABY BOOMER ANTHEM UPDATE

Talkin’ ‘Bout Our Regeneration Baby Boomer Anthem. Let’s get it straight from the start. If you’re reading this you probably didn’t die before you got old. I know, it’s a big surprise. Especially for you big party dogs. By now you know to avoid white flour, white powder, and white lightning in excess. You’ve learned […]

How To Choose A Baby Boomer Expert

Are They Expert Enough? Baby Boomers love classes. They teach and learn. Cooking French? Take a class. Foreign travel? Take a class. Speak Spanish? Visit a Spanish speaking country and take a class. You get the idea. There’s nothing boomers can’t learn, or at least try to learn. Blame the rush to organic food and […]

END OF THE CHEESE STEAK TRAIL IN OREGON

NW 23rd and Northrup. A food obsession isn’t a pretty thing. It makes you do things you’d rather not do, go places you shouldn’t. The best example in Portland, Oregon is the famous Poc Poc in SE. Where do you go after Poc Poc? Thailand, of course, and take Anthony Bourdain with you to get […]

LETTING GO. HOW HARD CAN IT BE?

It’s Easy Until You Try. Portland baby boomers, Oregon baby boomers, or what the hell ALL baby boomers, know how to let go. We’ve doing it for years. Sometimes with help we don’t ask for. Think of the era boomers grew up in. Let go of the old and embrace the new. We were young […]

IN PRAISE OF GOOD DRAINAGE FOR THE NEW YEAR

One of the highlights of Army basic training is a week long camp out. Everyone needs to enjoy the outdoors this way. You learn new skills and meet new friends. New friends come with the other half of the tent you’ll spend the week in…together. It’s called a shelter half. If you can’t get along […]

DON’T MEAN NOTHING? OR EVERYTHING?

The Torture Report. All war anniversaries, from WWI, to Pearl Harbor, to closing the operational command in Afghanistan, feel the same. It’s all Vietnam. That war played out on the nightly news through junior high and high school for my classmates. It was the war older brothers were drafted for, the war that robbed another […]

BABY BOOMERS: OLDER SIBLINGS OF THE WORLD

When Big Brother Is A Good Thing. In a large sense baby boomers have become the big brother of the world. Boomers young (50) and old (68) have caught plenty of heat over the years, but their influence is everywhere. Save the earth? Peace? Equality? Women’s rights? Gay rights? In such a huge demographic, baby […]