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4 F’s OF BOOMER HAPPINESS

October 22, 2016 by

  FUN: it’s something you share.   FORTUNE: some you make with others.   FAITH: that your difference makes a difference   FAIRNESS: what you help others understand…when they ask.   (fill in another F?)

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FITNESS COACH FOR BABY BOOMERS

September 23, 2016 by

Decide how fit you want to be before hiring a fitness coach. Any talk about fitness raises all the same negatives. Eat less, exercise more, be mobile, move around. And my favorite, Get Up. Many buttons on boomerpdx include the word UP as a reminder. Up is the key motivator. Up your interest in fitness. […]

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CATCH PORTLAND FEVER

August 29, 2016 by

Once you catch Portland Fever you’re doomed. Drug stores don’t advertise shots in case you catch Portland Fever. It’s not shingles, pneumonia, or the flu. On the other hand it’s not polio, malaria, of tuberculosis. While not fatal, if you do catch Portland Fever, your life is ruined. After a few years in Portland, maybe […]

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OREGON LOVE IN THE DISTRICT

August 23, 2016 by

Reluctant traveler finds Oregon love on the road. The best part of traveling to the other side of North America is answering the question, “Where are you from.” The easy answer is, “Oregon.” The one that gets across is, “Portland, Oregon.” Saying anything else needs explaining, like Tigard, but since I get mail marked Portland, […]

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THOMAS WOLFE STYLE WITH ASHEVILLE LAUNDRY

August 13, 2016 by

What is Thomas Wolfe Style? Keep reading. Here in Thomas Wolfe’s hometown, I mean Asheville, as much a home as he ever had since he liked to keep moving, I’m doing laundry at the Dixieland Laundry on a Friday afternoon. From the looks of things I’m probably the only washer headed back to Grove Park […]

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THE CARE AGE SANDWICH GENERATION

August 4, 2016 by

If elderly people depend on you, you’re in the Care Age. Ages come in different names defined by the dominant materials like the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age. Epochs and eras all have names. If you find artifacts made in America before the explorers got here, they’re called Pre-contact, as if everything after early […]

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AGING FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS CUSTOMERS

July 26, 2016 by

What happens when Frontier Communications customer service talks to aging baby boomers? For aging Frontier Communications customers who grew up with party line telephones and two channels on a black and white television, this is the Golden Age of media. Lightning fast fiber optics speed data into slow, old, desktops, but it’s still faster than […]

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BULLIES AND BITCHES: BORN THAT WAY?

July 22, 2016 by

Genetics no excuse for bullies and bitches. Some time ago in the Baby Boomer fog of age, like grade school in the mid-60’s at Bangor Elementary, voted the cool school by all former Bearcats, bullies and bitches came in all shapes and sizes. Turns out the time of day also mattered for them. A kid […]

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AGING IN PLACE MEANS LIVING IN PEACE

July 16, 2016 by

Baby Boomers yearn for an Aging in Place state of mind. If all we are asking is give peace a chance, why not ask for more, like a peaceful place to live? This aging behemoth of a generation, these Baby Boomers, are asking for more. They say they want to age in place, like aging […]

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ADD YARD WORK TO ANY CRIME AND IT’S NOT A CRIME

July 11, 2016 by

The ‘get out of jail free’ card? Yard work. Rob a bank, steal a car, and do some yard work? Ok. Murder and pillage and do some yard work when I get back? Ok. It might sound easy, but adding yard work to your list of activities means doing yard work. If your yard needs […]

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