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Boomer House

June 7, 2013 by

First Published On Boomercafe.com (click on over)   Memo to young families: Pay attention to other parents as the years pass. You’ll see them again. My kids are in their twenties now, but for one pre-school birthday we invited kids and moms from the class. I was too busy on the ‘entertainment’ side and didn’t notice the adults. Working […]

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Boomer Men Who Nurture

June 3, 2013 by

And The Dogs Who Love Them Tell the truth. You like to nurture. Admit it. You’ve learned how, and you like it. Some say a nurturer is born that way; others say it’s a result of a caring environment. You say the sooner you choose one or the other, the better. That’s not a green light to grow […]

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Baby Boomer Sports Fan

May 4, 2013 by

Boomerpdx Takes The Road Least Traveled On Purpose As a contributing columnist for Oregon Sports News I focus on the world of sports for the most fascinating stories. My research goal is to find the compelling story behind the leading headlines. With that in mind, the news of former PAC12 and NBA player Jason Collins announcing his […]

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THE AGING RACE

March 2, 2013 by

NO ONE WANTS TO FINISH FIRST As a writer on Baby Boomer culture, one aspect is unavoidable: end of life decisions for us and our parents. It’s not an every day thought until the time comes, then it’s an every minute thought. One day you’re out on the football field playing while your parents cheer […]

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AUTHORS FOR BOOMERPDX

January 25, 2013 by

Is A Writer’s Birth Order Important Or Not? Zelda? To create better context for Dead White Male Authors, or DWMA, Boomerpdx and Think Tank 121 offers 20th Century giants of letters’ birth order to the general public. Director of Writing / Maintenance, Story Teller, no relation of the physicist Edward Teller, presented a paper from […]

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BOOMER SON IN FOREVER YOUNG ENGLAND

December 12, 2012 by

  News from England arrived late. It touched home.   The story is pretty straight forward in the paper. “A Cambridge man charged with two attempted murders in a vicious street brawl in the city centre appeared in court yesterday.  Karl Eldin, 18, from Glebe Road, denied attempting to murder Alexander Lloyd and Ian Watters outside the […]

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THE HEART OF PORTLAND

December 5, 2012 by

  Urban life grows more imposing the closer you get to Burnside. The pretty lights you see from I-5, the beautiful reflection off the Willamette, disappear once you park your car. Trade wheels on the road for shoes on the sidewalk and the pace slows enough for a good look around. You still see the […]

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