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YOUNG PEOPLE NEED BETTER NARRATIVE FROM ELDERS?

Young people want to hear from the olds? They need a better narrative from us? Us boomers? Sure they do, just like you did when you were young. We heard something, but what it was ain’t exactly clear.

VALIDATED LIFE? GET YOUR TICKET STAMPED EARLY

A validated life, like a validated parking garage ticket, means freedom. Except the validated parking ticket is more direct. Put the card in the slot, the bar rises, you drive away. What constitutes a validated life that raises the bar to escape the couch you’ve been parked on?

INFLUENCER BLOGGING: BOOMERPDX IN A VACUUM

Influencer blogging is determined by the ‘most read’ posts on any particular blog. Take BoomerPdx for example. The influence this blog carries includes naked men in a gym locker room. If this was a marketing influencer blog, I’d market this idea for gyms: shower up, get dressed, and leave. Stopping hanging around, showboat. Speaking of […]

ASSISTED BLOGGING: HOW TO ASK FOR HELP

If there were an assisted blogging home I’d move there tomorrow. Would it be any different than my current digs? More community? Big outreach? Extra reminders that ‘You’re Not Alone?’ You’d think respect for the creative process would be high. Think about the possibilities of a writing retreat lifestyle. How long did that take?

BLOG READERS, BOTS, AND WRITERS

Google analytics on blog readers is either the biggest tattletale in history, or an effective research tool. It shows and tells where blog readers like you find boomerpdx. Apparently I’m a big hit in Chicago, at least that’s what the bots say. Bot? What else hits a blogger page fifty times for an average of […]

BOOMERPDX: FORTY STATES HIT THIS BLOG

Blogging is dead, long live blogging? Does that mean boomerpdx is dead, too? Or, All hail the podcast? Now I need a boomerpdx podcast? Books were called dead not too long ago, but they refused to go quietly. What, I’ve got to write a book to support books and reading? Reading was dying, but didn’t […]

BLOG PLATFORM, WRITER PLATFORM, LAUNCHES MEMOIR

We’ve got a joke, or more accurately my blog efforts get ridiculed, around the keyboard. Goes like this: “Why do you always write about yourself, or put yourself into every post?” I answer by spelling memoir, as in memoir blogger. “M-e … m-o-i-r. You can’t spell memoir without M and E.” Hilarity is supposed to […]

BLOG TRAFFIC: CLICK THROUGH READER CAN’T GET NO SATISFACTION

    Does blog traffic show up unexpected? What makes readers stay and look around once they do find you on accident?   First, it’s not an accident. At least blog traffic shouldn’t be accidental. That’s why we buy and install Genesis framework on a wordpress platform with a News theme from Studio Press.   […]

Men’s Poll Question: Your Wife’s Old ‘Friend’ Calls To Catch Up?

What’s the best approach is the question of the boomerpdx Men’s Poll Question?   When one of your wife’s college day boyfriends calls to catch up after a couple of decades, and she tells you about it, then what?   MAN #1   I wouldn’t think the question would ever come up since my wife […]

BLOGGER BEATS SEX CANCER, HIRES WRITING COACH

As if facing any cancer isn’t shocking enough, but sex cancer? From the moment of the first ‘you’ve got cancer’ phone call until this moment, the sense of plague-like certain doom sets in. Will doom plague the rest of my life from sex cancer? Is so that sucks for me, said every cancer patient in […]