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LIFE LESSONS START EARLY FOR OLD MEN

November 19, 2025 by

As a middle child myself for fourteen years, life lessons were important. We learned early to share with smaller kids, and not whine too much when older kids didn’t. Was there a learning curve? There’s always a learning curve when learning is involved. It’s not for everyone, to say the least, but . . .

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BLOG WORTHY vs NOT BLOG WORTHY? THE THIN BOOMERPDX LINE

November 15, 2025 by

I asked my kid the ‘blog worthy’ question this week. He had a slew of law enforcement gathered across the street from him. Me: Is it blog worthy? Kid: If it’s interesting. The kid obviously doesn’t read boomerpdx. When has interesting mattered? We talking about interesting, or interesting to me?

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HOW TO STAY SHARP

November 14, 2025 by

You stay sharp by asking questions, by hanging around people working on answers. But you know that. I know you know based on analytics, which says we can’t all be morons. Statistically speaking, of course. Take smoking cigarettes for example.

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WINTERING WINE AND ROTHKO

November 4, 2025 by

Wintering wine is what it looks like with the grapes gone to juice. Wine country in Oregon’s Willamette Valley at ground level where the fruit had been. The turning leaves paint a splash of color across the hillsides this time of year. What’s it remind you of?

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BETTER BOTS FOR BOOMERPDX?

November 2, 2025 by

Like every blogger out there, boomerpdx is traffic forward, which includes better bots. The more readers the better, which also includes additional exposure to online things. Like spiders. Spiders crawl websites to index them for search engines. Today is a celebration day on boomerpdx. Here’s why:

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ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE

November 1, 2025 by

Part of the job in writing a blog like boomerpdx is reading The New Yorker. That’s where I found The Fifties by Monica Ferrell. She’s got a website loaded up with the works. The works?

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WILDFIRE SEASON TO STORM SEASON?

October 31, 2025 by

Wildfire season? Storm season? Someone has an itchy panic button finger. There’s nothing wrong with summer, fall, winter, and spring, but those names don’t carry the same impact anymore. When asphalt gets tacky? Summer. Leaves drop off trees? Fall. Chilly? Winter. Warming up? Spring. Follow me for more weather updates and observations on today’s tricky […]

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TAX DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HERE AND THERE

October 21, 2025 by

The tax difference between sitting in my garage and getting lost in Arizona is pretty big. I’ll explain. I just got a property tax statement, maybe you did too? The list of where the money goes is impressive. Compared to what?

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AMERICAN MEETINGS, OREGON STYLE

October 18, 2025 by

Today’s American meetings will be held in the most American of places. Anyone seeking to learn more about America should memorize these names. Americans should memorize them, too. We forget so quickly. Where do we meet?

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BE SOMEBODY YOU’D LIKE SPENDING TIME WITH

October 15, 2025 by

Be somebody when it matters is the challenge, and it’s personal. If you’re a baby boomer living in that world, you know how it works. Someone has come to your rescue, and you’ve probably been on a rescue mission of some kind. Looking back at the times my old man wrote a note and sent […]

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