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CHICKEN DINNER: WHEN CHICKENS TALK

Too often we let days go by without notice. One chicken dinner blends into the next. June barbecued chicken turns into November roasters and it feels like a long weekend. It’s a sign we’re losing touch. At least that’s what we hear if we mention time passing at breakneck speed. If […]

CANCER MEMOIR FROM SMART GUY WITH HPV CANCER, AND IT’S NOT ME

Michael D. Becker wrote his cancer memoir titled ‘A Walk With Purpose.’ By all accounts he’s lived a life with purpose, so the walking with purpose stuff is expected. He walks with purpose, so do you. So do I. We all walk with purpose. If not we’re just wandering around aimless, without […]

CANCER ROOM: BEST OF TIMES, WORST OF TIMES

The biggest motivation for writing a cancer room memoir like ‘LICKING CANCER, The Full Response’ is paying tribute to the people I met in there. From staff to patients, it’s a team focused on the same goal, until it goes off the tracks, and it does in one way or the other for everyone. […]

AUTUMN LEAVES, AUTUMN DOGS, BEST TIME OF YEAR

How often do dogs change my day? Every day. And it’s not always my dog. A walk on a trail, a lady with two frisky hounds, and it’s a lively moment. Just two middle aged people on a hillside in the wilderness. Sharing the wonder of it all. Autumn […]

Breitenbush Retreat: Advancing Forward In Peace

Tell a conservative baby boomer man about a Breitenbush Retreat and expect to hear: Yeah, sure, we did it all back in college. Sure, it’s all about whatever. What? Oh sure. The idea of a retreat is foreign to them now that they’ve hit the years that aren’t so kind. […]

Japanese Exchange Student A Perfect Portland Fit

What’s better than traveling to new places and meeting the locals? Being the locals and meeting travelers. A Japanese exchange student proved the rule this summer. With kids out of high school and college you’d think a couple of empty nest boomers would enjoy themselves with the usual things baby boomers get […]

Lighten Up While You Still Can

When The Eagles sing Take It Easy, the line that stands out for me is, ‘Lighten up while you still can.’ It’s the same when Jackson Browne and James Taylor sing it. Baby boomers know how hard it is to lighten up better than anyone. Lighting up too, but that’s another post. […]

FAMILY COLLECTIONS OVERLOAD? OFFERUP

Where is the line between family collections and hoarding? How can you tell when you’re over that line, way over? In this well researched post on BoomerPdx I will dip into the experience of a Museum Collection Manager for an interview. Readers familiar with such details will automatically know what I’m talking […]

ADULT RESPONSIBILITY TAKES AN ADULT? SAYS WHO

No finer whine comes from any other generation. Should we all take a lesson from baby boomers’ and our adult reponsibility? Of course, and here’s why: no age group has shouldered more burden. And it’s so, so, hard. Just ask us. Ask the next old person you see who insists they are as vital and […]

CHICKEN DINNER: WHEN CHICKENS TALK

CANCER MEMOIR FROM SMART GUY WITH HPV CANCER, AND IT’S NOT ME

CANCER STORIES: FEEDING PUBLIC FEAR AND PRIVATE WOE

CANCER ROOM: BEST OF TIMES, WORST OF TIMES

AUTUMN LEAVES, AUTUMN DOGS, BEST TIME OF YEAR

Breitenbush Retreat: Advancing Forward In Peace

Japanese Exchange Student A Perfect Portland Fit

Lighten Up While You Still Can

FAMILY COLLECTIONS OVERLOAD? OFFERUP

ADULT RESPONSIBILITY TAKES AN ADULT? SAYS WHO

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