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BOOMERPDX HALLOWEEN PARTY GUIDE

October 31, 2019 by

A Halloween party is more than chugging a twelve pack and handing out candy. First it’s too much sugar; you know you’ll dip into the candy bowl a few times. If you wear a costume this will happen: Scare little kids so much their parents talk about reporting you; older kids will be frightened into […]

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DO BABY BOOMERS ASK FOR TOO MUCH

August 6, 2019 by

Depending on who you ask, baby boomers are either a blessing or a curse. Once we were the bundle of joy for parents coming back from The Big One, WWII. Their babies were the complete opposite of what had happened the past five years in Europe and the Pacific where injury and death were common. […]

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HOW SPORTS LIFE GUIDES REAL LIFE

May 22, 2019 by

Sports life not about winning and losing, but how you play the game? Real life says sports life isn’t an accurate reflection, that winning is the reason, the only reason, to do anything. People in the winning camp like to say winners do what losers won’t do. They’re not wrong, they just don’t know what […]

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GYM RAT EXPLAINED PERSONAL MOTIVATION

May 1, 2019 by

I asked a gym rat man the only question that matters: “What keeps you going?” At least that’s what I meant to ask when I said, “What keeps you from folding, from locking your door, closing the curtains, having food delivered, give up your car, and just shut it the hell down?” This was a […]

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FOREVER YOUNG LASTS FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS

April 28, 2019 by

A song like Forever Young is a nice thing until something sears it right into your brain instead of bouncing off your ear, turning the dial, and moving on. Forever Young is such a song for millions. It’s the song for every parent who has seen their kid move from stage to stage, from rolling […]

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BABY BOOMER ALERT: YOU’RE OLD AND YOU CAN’T HIDE IT ANYMORE

February 3, 2019 by

A question for readers in the baby boomer demographic: when did you realize you can’t hide your age? Was it when you first made a skin tent on the back of your hand? The first dark spot that looked just like the one you remember on your grandma’s arm? When you noticed something going on […]

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FAKE NEWS SHARED BY BABY BOOMERS, BUT WHY?

January 11, 2019 by

    For online fans of social media there’s a drumbeat across many platforms saying the same thing: Baby boomers share more fake news than any other demographic. The usual cutoff age is sixty five, so I’ve got another year before I hit that wall. If you are a boomer I’ve got a question: Do […]

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KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU, (UH HUH)

December 11, 2018 by

    Knowing Me As a young child in an unsupervised moment one of my playmates decided to ride his trike. I hopped on the back axle where there was room to stand and gave him a big push. Except he pulled back on the handle bars just as I pushed and popped a wheelie […]

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Carrying America’s Dirty Laundry, Vote Nov. 6, 2018

November 5, 2018 by

    Baby Boomers and Millennials get accused of so many things. Lazy parents produced entitled kids? You’ve heard that one? Millennials are too self absorbed to vote on Nov. 6, 2018? That’s been going around, too. The good news is not all Boomers are lousy parents and not all Millennials are spoiled little shits. […]

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Life Long Learners Get Life Lesson Whether They Learn Or Not

July 25, 2018 by

Life Lessons start early for writers, then they spend years figuring it out enough to make a joke, a poem, a short story, novella, novel. Maybe more, like a groundbreaking memoir. If it’s worth learning, it’s worth writing about to drill it in. Like most children of my generation, baby boomers, I had it made […]

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