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PORTLAND STREETS, pt.2: THE WALK

February 27, 2014 by

Every town, city, or bump in the road has somewhere you shouldn’t be. You’re new, you don’t know the lay of the land, and you get caught. What happens next tells you who you really are. One place you shouldn’t have to worry about is walking down NW 21st in Portland, Oregon. Most of the […]

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PORTLAND STREETS WITH BOOMERPDX, pt 1: THE BIKE

February 27, 2014 by

A Look Back At A 1980’s Bike/Car Conflict On Northwest 21st. What do you call an apartment living, bike riding, Portlander? Today they’re called hipsters. They either bike, walk, or take mass transit like eastcoasters. Maybe hipsters have always been here, but the name sounds too lame to claim. Hippie? Okay, it’s been around. Hipster? […]

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MONUMENTS MEN, THE ULTIMATE BOOMER MOVIE

February 20, 2014 by

In The Baby Boomer World Encompassed By Boomerpdx, Who Expected This? Waiting a few weeks to review a new movie isn’t the sort of thing that pumps box office numbers. You want to hit it on the first night, or even better score a ticket to a preview showing. Timely reviews push new movies hard, […]

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WHEN TIME IS RIGHT, WHEN TIME IS WRONG

February 12, 2014 by

Time Magazine is not always on your side. In an era of tablets and smart phones, who reads Time? Who subscribes? From the looks of most doctors’ offices, medical people like Time. Why? Think of the patients. The older they are, the more likely they grew up with Time. They still read words on paper […]

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NEW YEARS EVE vs SUPER BOWL

February 3, 2014 by

Every new year we’re losing weight and eating right? Wrong. With the Super Bowl hovering in the near future, every New Year’s resolution goes in the bucket. “I will give myself more will power in the new year.” Not on Super Bowl Sunday. And neither is anyone else. Will power isn’t what you pick up […]

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RAISING KIDS THE BABY BOOMER WAY

January 31, 2014 by

An article posted by salon.com, an article from 2001 titled The Curse Of The Hippie Parents, reflects on a then thirty five year old woman’s memories from childhood. If she’s forty eight now, she’s almost in late boomer territory. Which means her parents were early boomers, the group who made it all possible by their […]

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Baby Boomers, Gyms, And Church: Beware Of Hazards

December 30, 2013 by

Raise your hand it you attend church services on Christmas and Easter. Keep it up if you’ve ever been described as a Chreaster Christian. As Boomers age, and feel the gaze of their children and grandchildren upon them, they start making more of an effort on Sunday. Some might see the newly churched in the same light […]

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How To Black Friday In WA SQ Like Boomerpdx

November 29, 2013 by

It’s Not What You Think If You Know Where To Go Always start at Penny’s. You’ll save more there than Nickel’s or Dime’s, but not Dollar. Come in on Tigard’s Greenburg Road. There’s no more traffic than the usual stop light highway near a freeway off-ramp. Park on the edges for no crowd. You’ll see people standing near […]

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Baby Boomers In Ruin

October 31, 2013 by

Why do they ruin everything? They don’t. Joe Klein, the crackerjack political writer, looked at the day and said, “Baby Boomers Ruined The Government.” He hammers the spike further into the ‘Peace, Love, and Understanding’ generation with, “The U.S. can lay the blame for its current political mess at the feet of my generation.” Boomer PDX […]

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Boomer Exercise Translations, pt 2

October 20, 2013 by

Get Strong, Stay Strong. But First, A Cup Of Tea. Continued from Part 1. (From the original English.) Spring.org.uk.com listed twenty things exercise does. Baby boomer fitness works right in there. Those three words, baby and boomer and fitness, have become code for erectile dysfunction. Does exercise help ED? How can it hurt? 10. Helps with […]

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