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WHAT SORT OF PARENT DID YOUR PARENTS WARN YOU ABOUT

Did you become the sort of parent your parents warned you about? Are you surprised? We had stern warnings growing up about kids from unsupervised homes, which meant anyone different than us. Those were houses we weren’t allowed to visit. It was supposed to be a vaccine against hard partying high school nights. […]

KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU, (UH HUH)

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 […]

GIRLFRIEND BREAK UP AFTERMATH WITH DIRK FERGUSON

Girlfriend break up? It’s one way to learn how to stay married later. A bad break up then makes a better husband now. Dirk Ferguson witnessed the aftermath of a girlfriend break up that served as a guide to any break up wing man for the whole sad affair. Play Hall and […]

Men’s Poll Question: Your Wife’s Old ‘Friend’ Calls To Catch Up?

What’s the best approach is the question of the boomerpdx Men’s Poll Question? When one of your wife’s college day boyfriends calls to catch up after a couple of decades, and she tells you about it, then what? MAN #1 I wouldn’t think the question would ever come up since my wife […]

MARK ZUCKERBERG BUILDS PURPOSE ON FACEBOOK WALL

For big life questions, Mark Zuckerberg has big answers. From his Harvard commencement address: Today I want to talk about purpose. But I’m not here to give you the standard commencement about finding your purpose. We’re millennials. We’ll try to do that instinctively. Instead, I’m here to tell you finding your purpose isn’t […]

MILLENNIALS NEED BOOMER ‘LEAVING LESSON’

Leaving Lesson for the younger generation? Stick around. Once upon a time solving problems was simple. If something didn’t go your way, you left. The first class for Leaving Lessons explains how it works. You’ll learn the best time to bail is not a year on a calendar, but an age. 20 – […]

A MAY WEDDING AND ONE LOUD, “I DO,” LATER

A May wedding in a Fir Cathedral and still in the woods thirty one years later. Doesn’t every married couple have a theme song? They should, and it doesn’t have to be the same song forever. Just make it a song older than your marriage. And no Beatles. This ought to be the common default:

ASPIRATIONAL EDUCATION GOAL CALLED THE 40-40-20 PLAN, NOT 420

40-40-20 Plan called an Aspirational Goal, like a wish list From The Oregonian in 2012: 40 percent of the state’s adults with four-year college degrees, 40 percent with two-year degrees or the equivalent, and the remaining 20 percent with high school degrees. It would be an impressive advance, since the four-year number is now […]

DOES YOUR FAMILY HATE YOU ENOUGH? GET BUSY

Family hate means family values 0. Are you the right gender? Check early pictures to see if you’re wearing the right clothes. If you’re a guy and your baby pictures look like a girl, relax. General Douglas MacArther wore a dress and long hair as a child. It was the fashion, and it didn’t hurt […]

LEARNING FROM WHERE YOU LIVE, PT2: BABY BOOMER ERA

The baby boomer era state of mind. What is there to learn from the baby boomer era? Every passing year the nostalgia grows stronger, but that doesn’t change history. Consider the boomer time line from 1946-1964. The oldest boomers were twenty year olds in 1966. The youngest were twenty in 1984. My cohort […]

WHAT SORT OF PARENT DID YOUR PARENTS WARN YOU ABOUT

KNOWING ME, KNOWING YOU, (UH HUH)

GIRLFRIEND BREAK UP AFTERMATH WITH DIRK FERGUSON

Men’s Poll Question: Your Wife’s Old ‘Friend’ Calls To Catch Up?

MARK ZUCKERBERG BUILDS PURPOSE ON FACEBOOK WALL

MILLENNIALS NEED BOOMER ‘LEAVING LESSON’

A MAY WEDDING AND ONE LOUD, “I DO,” LATER

ASPIRATIONAL EDUCATION GOAL CALLED THE 40-40-20 PLAN, NOT 420

DOES YOUR FAMILY HATE YOU ENOUGH? GET BUSY

LEARNING FROM WHERE YOU LIVE, PT2: BABY BOOMER ERA

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