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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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Connecting Boomer Exercise And Writing

January 22, 2014 by

Talk writing with a boomer, with anyone, and you hear a common story. “I’m going to write my novel (memoir, short story, or poem) when I retire. Or, “I’ve got it all figured out in my mind. Now all I need to do is find the time.” Or, “I’d like to write something, but all […]

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Late Blooming Baby Boomers

January 21, 2014 by

Too Late To Be A Child Prodigy? Idiot Savant Carries No Age Barrier. Just Be Ready For Changes. Who doesn’t like a good label. They make things so understandable. Steve Jobs was a ‘genius.’ What else do you call the man who reinvented computers, phones, and music delivery? What did his employees call him when […]

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Starting At Anti-Drug Quarterback, Kevin Sabet

January 17, 2014 by

From wiki: In February of 2013, Salon Magazine referred to Kevin as “the quarterback of the new anti-drug movement.” Welcome to Oregon, player. Hope you enjoy this stop on your platform building tour. Mr. Sabet, a Cal Berkeley grad with a PhD from Oxford understands his audience. When the subject is weed, he gets it. Isn’t Berkeley famous […]

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LeGarrette Blount, High Flying Oregon Duck

January 16, 2014 by

New rules in the NFL further opened up the modern game. Great quarterbacks like Drew Brees put up numbers beyond reach, except for the player coming off the sort of injury and surgery cycle that ends careers. Peyton Manning at his best is as good as anyone has ever been. After he gets the play, […]

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Get Your Medical History In Another Language

January 9, 2014 by

In The Hospital And You Don’t Speak The Language. Now What? Do you like new places, the sort where you step off a plane and think, “It looks normal enough,” but you know it’s not? You know because you showed up after language immersion and Rosetta Stone, and you still don’t understand what anyone says. […]

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Dear Facebook, Huffington Post Wants Your Action

January 3, 2014 by

From news.discovery.com: “Now that Facebook has gone public and is struggling to get a steady valuation, the company is looking to find new ways to make its money and prove its worth to investors. One option Facebook is exploring is enhancing ad sales by more effective targeting of increasingly specific demographic groups, using location data […]

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Victim Marketing To Baby Boomers

January 3, 2014 by

Getting old is not a crime. No one goes to court on their sixtieth birthday for sentencing. If they did, and I was the judge, I’d sentence all 79 million boomers to join and read boomerpdx the rest of their lives. Of course there’d be an appeals process and because I’m lenient I’d reduce some […]

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Fitness. Sports. Bucket List. What’s The Difference?

January 1, 2014 by

A healthy hello to all boomeon members and readers. As boomeon.com’s Baby Boomer Sports Blogger my posts won’t be limited to specific boomer sports, but you’ll find a boomer edge in every column. In the new year I plan to comment on particular teams and trends and boomer action. By outlining a plan for the year, you’ll know a few […]

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Doing Time, And It Ain’t a’Changin’

December 28, 2013 by

Any front page Oregonian news featuring a baby boomer is good news for boomerpdx. But there’s a problem. It’s about a retired man moving up in his career, a man with a sail in the winds of progress. That’s not the problem. Baby boomers drive entrepreneurship. You can’t walk into a coffee shop without seeing gray hair […]

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