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Boomerpdx On Momba’s Best Run

October 23, 2013 by

Are The Ducks Better Without De’Anthony? Come on, man. He’s been out of action, but Thomas’s game impact crosses all borders. Every sports fan watches harder when he touches the ball. Every defensive player knows their best isn’t good enough when he’s in the game. And every coach wants a player just like him. He […]

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The Car, The War

October 23, 2013 by

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?

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Portland, Boomer Writer Magnet

October 14, 2013 by

Boomer NW Introduces Courtney Pierce. Like iron shavings on a magnet, baby boomer writers cling to Portland. Why? It’s not because flavorwire.com lists 20 great American cities for writers. Not when Portland, Oregon comes in 17th with Jersey City, NJ and Iowa City, Iowa on either side. If you were a Milwaukie novelist where would you meet a […]

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Average American Man = Fat?

October 11, 2013 by

This is what it looks like my boomers. Average American from The Atlantic. The artist compares Average American, named Todd, to other countries. Do you agree with this interpretation, or is there something missing?

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Tigard Backpack Program

October 2, 2013 by

Charlie Sandbo Shows How To Help A Food Budget. How often do you read about retiring Baby Boomers striving to remain relevant? Whether it’s their family, their community at large, or something on a national level, Boomers keep looking for a better way. Is it a surprise that a boomer couple’s son would do the […]

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Baby Boomer Adopts The Seattle Seahawks

October 1, 2013 by

Dave And A Sports Fan Family. The distance between Seattle and Portland shrinks every fall Sunday. So does the gap between big brother to the north and little brother during the NFL season. Sports do that. Harmony grows between the two cities with each win, whether the comeback on Houston that seemed ordained by football […]

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Miley Cyrus vs Bad Baby Boomer

September 1, 2013 by

After every decent woman had her say, after every fluffy-haired television man complains, where is Miley Cyrus? She’s not checked into re-hab, the psych ward, or working on a Nevada ranch. Is she in New Orleans drinking chicken blood in voodoo classes? No. She’s probably working on her next performance. She probably took the horns […]

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The Baby Boomer Side Of The Internet

August 30, 2013 by

What’s the first thing you do when you find a website that amazes? You either send the link to your social network because they’d all love to see it… Or, you try and break the site down to something you understand. You’re not hacking into it, just wrapping your mind around the idea. Here are […]

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Baby Boomer And The Oregon Ducks

August 29, 2013 by

What defines big time? The wise answer, the baby boomer blogger answer, is ‘The big time is right where you are.’ But that doesn’t always work out. People who hate where they are, either geographically or emotionally, want a better answer. For them, the big time is out there waiting just around the corner, and […]

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The Baby Boomer Oregon 8

August 26, 2013 by

Where Beauty Is More Than Skin Deep. Walking past a local salon full of baby boomer women with a friend who said, “Looks like they’re doing good business in there.” He moved here from the Midwest and prides himself on a certain standard of beauty. “I’m not sure why so many Oregon women go to beauty salons,” I […]

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