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BOOMER PRIORITIES: THE LIST

If You Don’t Have A List Of Baby Boomer Priorities, Make One. Ignore your boomer priorities list and someone will make one for you. Tip: You won’t like it. The regular off-the-shelf list isn’t good enough anymore. The Ten Commandments, Golden Rule, and self-help guides still work fine, but boomers face new challenges that need […]

LETTING GO. HOW HARD CAN IT BE?

It’s Easy Until You Try. Portland baby boomers, Oregon baby boomers, or what the hell ALL baby boomers, know how to let go. We’ve doing it for years. Sometimes with help we don’t ask for. Think of the era boomers grew up in. Let go of the old and embrace the new. We were young […]

PDX HISTORY IN WILLAMETTE WEEK

It’s All In The Personal Details For Portland. Historic data reflects how things were and warn against what might be coming. After the facts of an event circulate through enough hands it becomes hard truth. The forty year history of Portland as recounted by Willamette Week reporters show a city recent arrivals will never know. […]

BOOMERS IN A DOWNSIZING STATE OF MIND

Or Just Moving For A Better Portland View? From oregonlive.com: “The analysis of Census data showed more baby boomers than ever lived in single-family detached homes in 2012. The pattern holds true even for the eldest of the age group, born between 1946 and 1955. That an indication that the convention wisdom may be wrong, […]

RAISING KIDS THE BABY BOOMER WAY

An article posted by salon.com, an article from 2001 titled The Curse Of The Hippie Parents, reflects on a then thirty five year old woman’s memories from childhood. If she’s forty eight now, she’s almost in late boomer territory. Which means her parents were early boomers, the group who made it all possible by their […]

Boomer History 101

If Your Boomer Man Seems Confused, Here’s Why: It starts with ‘Old School’ and how do you define it. Yes, it’s the title of a Will Farrell movie, but move along. Old School in 2013 could mean the 1980′s, bumped to the 1990′s for twenty-somethings. It works for shorter attention spans, but not longer. Wiki […]