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BABY BOOMER EXPECTATIONS ARE PREMEDITATED RESENTMENT?

So This Is Why There’s So Much Anger. Even the sound of ‘premeditated resentment’ sounds so wrong. If you’re going to premeditate something it’s usually murder as in ‘premeditated murder.’ You’ve got a victim in mind and make plans to knock them off? That’s premeditated murder. Next stop, death row. Expectations don’t seem as harsh. […]

THE OREGON SECRET, part 1

Finally Exposed: Portland Street Car Suspicions… Read the transportation editorial on the Oregonian’s Opinion front page, the sort of benchmark work a newspaper of record addresses online and hard copy. In other words, try and stay awake. No thwarted world terror plans to reflect on. No national shootings of note. Just an honest request to […]

WHO PLAYS STORY MUSGRAVE IN THE STORY MUSGRAVE STORY?

Seventy nine year old Story Musgrave is a name we all should know. My sons saw the movie Interstellar and decided it was the perfect show for their old man’s sixtieth birthday. And they were right. I was moved by a movie, which is what’s supposed to happen, right? I left with a yearning feeling […]

ALIENATED BOOMERS VS MODERN HIPPIE

Take a good look at the next Millennial hippie. A twenty-something in tie dye, hygiene averse, stands next to their custom made bicycle at a happening brew pub. This isn’t a Halloween costume, it’s their outfit of choice. Call it lifestyle for lack of a better term. Just don’t call it throwback. Their choice of […]

BRITTANY MAYNARD’S GRAND CANYON

The Perfect Choice For Her Bucket List, For Every Bucket List. An easy step into history. Layers of ridges, impossible depths.

SPEAKING TO THE ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP

Yes, you. You know who you are. The idea of wild life for Baby Boomers? The older the whole groups gets, the more the definition changes. You get that when 10,000 Boomers a day hit retirement age. When grandchildren start flipping though photo albums and see what you used to look like, try not to […]

JOHN KITZHABER: OREGON BABY BOOMER GOVERNOR

Boomerpdx is a non-affilliated blog giving a baby boomer perspective to Portland, Oregon, and beyond. If it had a mission statement it would read like the Bible: Treat others as you would like to be treated. No one goes wrong with the Golden Rule. From a political point of view, especially in an election year, […]

THE BRIGHT ANGEL SIDE OF LIFE

Bright Angel is the name of the trail that runs from rim to rim across the Grand Canyon. It’s a place to meet new friends and enjoy the outdoors. An interpretation of Bright Angel is Baby Boomer ass kicker. If you make it down a mile and a half to the first bathroom/water stop and […]

DEREK JETER: BLOGGER ON DECK

What Happened To The Dumb Jock Stereotype?  While too many professional athletes seem to run amok, Derek Jeter managed to stay on the base paths. After twenty years of scrutiny in the most invasive media center in the world, what’s the worst thing you know about Jeter? He’s married with children and has a secret […]

LOVE IN THE TIME OF TACOMA

One sure measure of a city on the way up is the people who move there. When the smart crowd shows up, things change. Of course it takes more than intelligence. It also takes commitment and patience. Combine intelligence, commitment, and patience in newly weds who choose to make Tacoma their home, and the fuse […]