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BABY BOOMERS GROW UP?

March 26, 2016 by

How can you tell when boomers grow up? When you wonder how you got where you are, it’s nice to have a reminder. Find a place that’s yours, where it would take some nosing around to find. That’s where the Shelf of Fame goes. It’s not for everyone to see, just a reminder of your […]

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BOOMER HEALTH RISK: UNINTENTIONAL FALL

March 19, 2016 by

Ask Amy gives her take on baby boomers’ unintentional fall. Her numbers are big on the unintentional fall. Ask Amy doesn’t want us to take a dive. 25,000 deaths, over two million emergency room visits, all due to an unintentional fall. The Center for Disease Control even has a page, as if an unintentional fall […]

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SAUCEBOX MILLENNIALS ON BROADWAY

March 15, 2016 by

Nothing good happens after midnight? Even for Saucebox Millennials? Go out with a group of millennials you’ve known since birth, kindergarten, or grade school, and you’ll see something familiar. They party like baby boomers in their twenties. They drink drinks and talk and carry on like barflies. There might be one among them who needs […]

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BOOMER MOMS KNOW

March 6, 2016 by

If you love something, don’t set it free like boomer moms were set free. Boomer moms know all about love. Good love, bad love, boomer moms know the love cycle. First they were enchanted by the big strong men around them, the dads and uncles and neighbors. Then it was the young men who reminded […]

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HOW TO KNOW YOUR PLACE

March 3, 2016 by

Do You Know Your Place? Need To Learn? Look back on your earliest memories. Were you surrounded by everything you’d ever want? If you go back far enough, you don’t know what you want. You just remember stuff. Having siblings means sharing your stuff. Now think back on how you and your siblings shared things. […]

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BABY BOOMER HISTORY: PRESIDENTS SINCE 1946

February 25, 2016 by

Baby boomers showed up in 1946, Presidents since 1946. From the drama of the golden baby boomer decade, the psychedelic Sixties, you’d think Nixon was the only president that mattered. Or Lyndon Johnson. But good history fans hark back to Harry Truman in 1946. Harry ‘The Buck Stops Here’ Truman welcomed the first wave of […]

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HARRY POTTER, WIZARD ROYALTY OR SPORTS HERO

February 20, 2016 by

Game changers: Harry Potter, Muhammad Ali, O. J. Simpson. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone showed author J.K. Rowling as a sports writer. Her narration of the games played at Hogwarts was as riveting as any slick play by play. She showed Quidditch in the same light as Al Michaels calling the Miracle On Ice, […]

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ANGRY AMERICA? BBC SAYS YES

February 4, 2016 by

The BBC knows why you live in angry America. And angry Oregon. Research shows an angry America. Is it true? Yes, according to BBC research that includes all the big names in poll sampling. A CNN/ORC poll. Be angry the results are posted on a twenty nine page pdf file for clickability. NBC/Wall Street Journal […]

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STEPH YOUR GAME UP

January 26, 2016 by

Anything is possible when you Steph Your Game Up. Step back a moment and consider the history of the long range bomber in basketball. Baby boomers had Pistol Pete Maravich in his baggy gray socks launching forty footers. They went in often enough for Pete to avoid the tag of, “afraid of the paint,” which […]

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IN PRAISE OF CANAPRENEURS AND THE OTHER SPOT

January 2, 2016 by

Canapreneurs manage risk with cannabis business. The Other Spot was part of it. Who remembers their favorite bar? Was it on a college campus? In your neighborhood? Maybe you’re still looking. Here’s one blogger’s list: J.C. Dobbs, South Street, Philadelphia. Long and narrow with a band playing in the back. It was the ‘go to’ […]

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