Are You Ready For The Pain? Across every sports spectrum, except soccer, you hear the same thing in August. “Are you ready for some football?” The fans are ready to go rabid, the ex-players, the has-beens, and the never was-ers. It’s the time of year when everyone is great, everyone’s a champion, and even people […]
To: COMMANDER, NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
May 28, 2014 by
Baby boomers know how to move on. We’ve seen hippies turn into businessmen, radicals to politicians, yippies into stock brokers. We’ve seen our soldiers come back from Vietnam and work to regain missing years. The following two letters come from an American veteran. He served on the Korean DMZ. Thomas Lucken, like thousands of other […]
LAST WEEK ON BOOMERPDX . . .
April 19, 2014 by
Every blogger knows the golden rule: ignore your blog and it will die. No one like a dead blog, an abandoned blog that leaves you wondering what went wrong. Show life, blog life, in each post, each line. Listen to the words you choose and find the music. It’s okay to change your tune if […]
GUEST BLOGGING ON BOOMERPDX
March 27, 2014 by
Good Idea Or A Passing Fad? None other than the great Jon Morrow says guest posting is still the best blogger game going.He knows this stuff. His blog grows by leaps and more leaps with each post. Today a blogger guest posted for him. He said all the right things, but the one that hit hardest was the […]
THE USEFUL PORTLAND BOOMER BLOGGER
February 4, 2014 by
The Common Question. What is it you ask when you meet someone new? Networking people want to know, “What do you do?” So do most others, but they won’t admit it. They don’t want to seem pushy. Portland business is polite business. When you meet others in a regularly planned gathering it’s not a question of what […]
How To Create A Stunning Blog Like Boomerpdx
January 5, 2014 by
Most bloggers get spam messages. Most bloggers delete them. Ugg boots and ‘cheap’ NFL jersey’s? You know if you need them. Every now and then you get a request that rings true. It’s straight forward and feels like it’s coming from on honest place, not a machine spewing spam notices on every url on the […]
