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ROAD TRIPS WITH THE BOYS, PART ONE

July 25, 2023 by

Road trips with kids sounds like a duty, a hassle, a task to do and be done with. It starts with a plan, then a phone call. How you answer gives the kids an idea on how to respond when their turn comes around: “Dad, can we borrow your car and drive to a concert […]

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TRAVEL BUG BITES BACK? SCRATCH THAT ITCH

April 23, 2020 by

Once upon a time the bite from a travel bug meant one thing: pack that bag. We all know people bitten by the travel bug. From pictures, to videos, to restaurant receipts, they can’t stop re-telling the same story over and over. We know them because that’s just who we are. See something that draws […]

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BICYCLE DAY FOLLOWED BY 420? CALL A DOCTOR, STAT

April 20, 2018 by

    Call a doctor and ask about the medical qualities of acid and weed. Maybe your doc has some non-medical experience to share, but probably won’t.   If your medical provider isn’t in the loop, boomerpdx will shine some light. No, not crack the sky light from the heavens above with a big voice […]

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LONESOME VALLEY? WALK IT BY MYSELF? WHAAAT?

December 31, 2016 by

  The Carter Family has a map of the lonesome valley. Everybody knows the way on the lonesome valley. Your mother’s gonna walk it. Your daddy’s gonna walk it. Those sinners got to walk it. And they all walk it alone. That’s what the Carter Family says. Everybody’s got to walk this lonesome valley We’ve […]

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LUMINEERS PLAY PORTLAND

June 1, 2016 by

Once you’ve seen a Lumineers concert your baby boomer brain starts working. It might happen with others, too. If so, leave a comment. Are the players in Lumineers channeling their inner Grateful Dead? Phish? Who do they sound like? At some point all bands share a common note, a thread of recognition. Then they played […]

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HEMP HYPE FROM A GANJA GANGSTER

February 27, 2015 by

What Is Hemp Hype? The Oregonian showed up with a front page above the fold image of someone about to roll a pile of weed into a single zigzag sheet. It’s an inflammatory image geared to race the hearts of the anti-hemp crowd. Baby boomers know this scene. They’ve either lived it or left the […]

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Boomer College. Smart, Smarter, and You

November 2, 2013 by

When old dropouts run out of excuses. Baby Boomers return to college to ‘Close Old Chapters.’ Or, ‘Open New Horizons.’ Most of all they’re tired of hearing about it. Any resolution from ‘Move Forward With My Life’ to ‘Finish Unfinished Business’ means the same thing: show up and finish. Returning Boomer wants to finish what they started, […]

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JOE QUEENAN’S KIDS AND YOUR KIDS

August 11, 2013 by

When it comes to helping millennials move out on their own, ask Joe Queenan how it’s done. He writes in the Wall Street Journal: “A large part of the problem is that young adults (millennials are 18 to 31 years old) don’t hate their parents the way baby boomers hated theirs; a lot of us […]

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