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BOOMER ANGLE: BE MORE ENGAGING

June 24, 2020 by

The boomer angle of working through life isn’t working so well. The scummy people you see in the news talking from both sides of their mouth? They all aim for the boomer angle. Mr. Trump himself is Boomer #1 in the line up. What happened?

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UNIFORM POWER CHANGES PEOPLE

June 5, 2020 by

Buffalo Men In Blue Serving And Protecting If you’ve never seen uniform power up close, keep reading. This post might shed light on how people change when they put on a uniform with a bunch of other people. Or you might want to skip the read, after all, it’s just another old white male boomer, […]

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BOOTLICKER: A TASTEFUL EXAMPLE OF STYLE

June 1, 2020 by

A bootlicker comes in all shapes and sizes. Baby boomers are bootlickers with years of experience. If you want some expert advice on how to lick a boot, find an old person, but not too old, and ask questions.

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UNDERSTANDING BOOMERS IN A FEARFUL TIME

January 9, 2020 by

A brave guide for understanding boomers. To start at the beginning, baby boomers dropped into the scene after Johnny marched home from WWII. The early stages of the population wave were raised by WW II vets and lived around WWII vets.

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BOOMERTOPIA: A MILLENIAL GUIDE TO LIVING IN A BABY BOOMER WORLD WITHOUT COMPLAINING

January 3, 2020 by

This is the sort of anti boomertopia food boomers had to look forward to. If this is what got rolled out for special guests, what would you guess we ate the rest of the time?

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TIGARD TRENDING TOWARD TRAIN TRACKS

December 27, 2019 by

Not Me: I want to live near the train, the light rail train. Isn’t Tigard trending toward the train. Me: The train goes through Beaverton to Hillsboro. Not Me: I’ve heard great things about Hillsboro.

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GYM LIFER: IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE

December 20, 2019 by

Gym Lifer: You need to come with me and talk to someone. Me: Sure. Him: He’s having chest pains.

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BOOMER PARENTS: HOW KIDS LEAVE A MARK

December 19, 2019 by

A peppy forty-nine year old single man was feeling down, feeling the holiday blues. I did what boomer parents do, I butted in; it’s an auto-response. He said he lived too far away from relatives to visit family and make it all better. I could feel his sadness, so I tried to talk him back […]

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BOOMER HEALTH: BE HARDER TO KILL

December 17, 2019 by

To new readers, boomer health is a common concern: I had cancer, don’t now, but I don’t identify as a cancer survivor. The category I see myself in is Chemo and Radiation Survivor. Cancer didn’t survive chemo and radiation, but I did. Without the juice and the jolt, cancer would have been a David Survivor.

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LEGACY BOOMERS LEARN TO TELL TIME AND TURN BACK CLOCK

December 14, 2019 by

Legacy boomers showed up early. They were the first wave of kids when Johnny marched home after WWII. Families started between 1946-1952 produced future hippies and draft dodgers and leaders. Those are the people referred to when millennials drag baby boomers with “Ok Boomer.” So the rest of us get a pass? Uh, no. And […]

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