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CYLVIA HAYES MOTHER SAYS…?

February 7, 2015 by

From Dr. Hook To Dr. K. Cylvia Hayes Sings The Song. Like any responsible blogger I read the news. Online, cable, paper delivery. That’s being responsible. Call it part of a dying baby boomer culture but a newspaper makes real things more real. It can’t get more real than the front page of the Oregonian’s […]

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END OF THE CHEESE STEAK TRAIL IN OREGON

January 30, 2015 by

NW 23rd and Northrup. A food obsession isn’t a pretty thing. It makes you do things you’d rather not do, go places you shouldn’t. The best example in Portland, Oregon is the famous Poc Poc in SE. Where do you go after Poc Poc? Thailand, of course, and take Anthony Bourdain with you to get […]

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BABY BOOMER EXPECTATIONS ARE PREMEDITATED RESENTMENT?

January 5, 2015 by

So This Is Why There’s So Much Anger. Even the sound of ‘premeditated resentment’ sounds so wrong. If you’re going to premeditate something it’s usually murder as in ‘premeditated murder.’ You’ve got a victim in mind and make plans to knock them off? That’s premeditated murder. Next stop, death row. Expectations don’t seem as harsh. […]

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THE OREGON SECRET, part 1

December 22, 2014 by

Finally Exposed: Portland Street Car Suspicions… Read the transportation editorial on the Oregonian’s Opinion front page, the sort of benchmark work a newspaper of record addresses online and hard copy. In other words, try and stay awake. No thwarted world terror plans to reflect on. No national shootings of note. Just an honest request to […]

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WHO PLAYS STORY MUSGRAVE IN THE STORY MUSGRAVE STORY?

December 19, 2014 by

Seventy nine year old Story Musgrave is a name we all should know. My sons saw the movie Interstellar and decided it was the perfect show for their old man’s sixtieth birthday. And they were right. I was moved by a movie, which is what’s supposed to happen, right? I left with a yearning feeling […]

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THROUGH AN OREGON DUCK’S EYE

November 12, 2014 by

This Is The Year. Seriously, This Year Is The One. Nothing in college football feels better than waking up Sunday morning with your team still near the top. The top this year is the 1-4 ranking for the first scheduled College Football Playoffs. No matter what else you’ve got going, a winning team makes it […]

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THE GOOD LISTENER, A BABY BOOMER TRAIT

October 31, 2014 by

Making The Effort To Show You Care. Sometimes you come across a great notion and wonder if anyone else notices what you noticed. Notions are trickstery like that. What you see in your mind is all that matters. Does it matter? The mattering starts when you write it out, when you lay it down for […]

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SPEAKING TO THE ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP

October 28, 2014 by

Yes, you. You know who you are. The idea of wild life for Baby Boomers? The older the whole groups gets, the more the definition changes. You get that when 10,000 Boomers a day hit retirement age. When grandchildren start flipping though photo albums and see what you used to look like, try not to […]

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JOHN KITZHABER: OREGON BABY BOOMER GOVERNOR

October 23, 2014 by

Boomerpdx is a non-affilliated blog giving a baby boomer perspective to Portland, Oregon, and beyond. If it had a mission statement it would read like the Bible: Treat others as you would like to be treated. No one goes wrong with the Golden Rule. From a political point of view, especially in an election year, […]

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THE BRIGHT ANGEL SIDE OF LIFE

October 19, 2014 by

Bright Angel is the name of the trail that runs from rim to rim across the Grand Canyon. It’s a place to meet new friends and enjoy the outdoors. An interpretation of Bright Angel is Baby Boomer ass kicker. If you make it down a mile and a half to the first bathroom/water stop and […]

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