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BoomerPdx And End Of Life Debate

February 24, 2015 by

Oregon wins the trifecta for end-of-life discussion. 1. Oregon Senate Bill 451 establishes the nation’s first state registry of people’s wishes for end-of-life care. 2. U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer’s H.R. 1898 allows funds for doctors discussing end-of-life choices with their patients. 3. The state has allowed physician-assisted suicide/death with dignity as a final option. In […]

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How To Choose A Baby Boomer Expert

February 23, 2015 by

Are They Expert Enough? Baby Boomers love classes. They teach and learn. Cooking French? Take a class. Foreign travel? Take a class. Speak Spanish? Visit a Spanish speaking country and take a class. You get the idea. There’s nothing boomers can’t learn, or at least try to learn. Blame the rush to organic food and […]

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BOOMERPDX ARCHIVE, c. 1983

February 22, 2015 by

1-10-83 (Monday) A former Oregon governor died last Saturday. Tom McCall breathed his last in the hospital up the street. Good Samaritan. A student nurse in my building cared for him at the end. She said he’s a great guy. Everyone says it. He seems like someone you’d like to know. Oregon history’s Tom Vaughan […]

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OREGON GOVERNMENT LIKE A COLONOSCOPY

February 13, 2015 by

Starting with “You won’t feel a thing.” 1. The View. Whether combing over smaller evidence with a microscope of going for a bigger picture like the Hubble Space Telescope, you want to see it all. You’d rather use one of those than invite a judge and jury to examine evidence from the inside. 2. The […]

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END OF THE CHEESE STEAK TRAIL IN OREGON

January 30, 2015 by

NW 23rd and Northrup. A food obsession isn’t a pretty thing. It makes you do things you’d rather not do, go places you shouldn’t. The best example in Portland, Oregon is the famous Poc Poc in SE. Where do you go after Poc Poc? Thailand, of course, and take Anthony Bourdain with you to get […]

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LETTING GO. HOW HARD CAN IT BE?

January 24, 2015 by

It’s Easy Until You Try. Portland baby boomers, Oregon baby boomers, or what the hell ALL baby boomers, know how to let go. We’ve doing it for years. Sometimes with help we don’t ask for. Think of the era boomers grew up in. Let go of the old and embrace the new. We were young […]

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BABY BOOMER RESENTMENT, Con’t

January 12, 2015 by

The Beatles. For all the bands that go on forever, The Who, The Stones, Bob Dylan, why did we lose The Beatles so early? Baby boomer abandoned? Could be they burned so bright they went blind to our needs? Five years of top albums in the decade might do it. The Beatles had their five. […]

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BABY BOOMER EXPECTATIONS ARE PREMEDITATED RESENTMENT?

January 5, 2015 by

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. […]

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THE OREGON SECRET, part 1

December 22, 2014 by

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 […]

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WHO PLAYS STORY MUSGRAVE IN THE STORY MUSGRAVE STORY?

December 19, 2014 by

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 […]

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