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FANCY PARTY, OR JUST ANOTHER DAY?

November 5, 2025 by

I’ve been to a fancy party. One. And it was fine. It was also enough. The purpose was to mingle museum staff with board members. The place was a twelve thousand square foot home in Portland’s West Hills. It was a beauty and worth dressing up for. I wore my nice jacket.

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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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LOVE LETTER TO READERS AND SUBSCRIBERS

November 3, 2025 by

Who remembers the first love letter you wrote? Did you send it? Either way, it’s all about the intent. You were moved to express your feelings. I don’t know about you, but I remember my first.

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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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TIME MACHINE, OR ’66 CORVETTE

October 30, 2025 by

The usual time machine in movies is a box you walk into in one era and walk out of in another. It’s some kind of portal used to go back and fix something. Things go wrong when the fix starts a domino effect that changes everything else, so you have to go back for a […]

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EMPTY HANDS IN THE GETTY

October 29, 2025 by

The empty hands in the Getty Museum, or Getty Center, caught my eye more than the hands with cigarettes. Can’t you see a coffin nail, maybe a Phillip Morris Commander, in this guy’s hand, tipping ashes into the skull? The artist sees the whole picture and paints it; visitors see modern interpretations. I see a […]

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LONELY PEOPLE: FROM HEMINGWAY TO AMERICA

October 27, 2025 by

The answer: lonely people. The question: What does the band America have in common with Ernest Hemingway? Their bond comes from both ends of male adulthood, young man to old man. One sang about them, the other wrote about them. By now baby boomers are both.

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OREGON MAP: BEHIND THE SCENES

October 25, 2025 by

An Oregon map on a wall? Who doesn’t have one of those? But when they show up unexpectedly it’s a happy reminder. You see things and wonder, ‘What’s that look like from the air?

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