If you’ve never heard of it, a finishing school is where women become ladies. Ladies? What kind of ladies? Ladies who grew up expecting others to know what they’d learned in finishing school. To that we say, “Good luck.”
WRITERS’ BUNDLE: WHAT TO LEAVE OUT
December 9, 2023 by
A writers’ bundle joins other bundles in saving time and money. Time and money is what you spend writing, so why not bundle. Here’s a pencil, some paper, and a desk. All set? What else do you need?
HISTORY WORK NEVER ENDS FOR THE CURIOUS
December 8, 2023 by
Doing history work where you live is the only way to get to your happy place. Or at least you’ll know where you are. The Oregon Historical Society’s downtown Portland history museum is just the place. But first ask yourself, “Am I curious?” If you read boomerpdx regularly, you pass the curious test. Take this […]
LIFE LESSONS: FIRST DO NO HARM
December 6, 2023 by
Life lessons start early and never stop. But, and this is a tough one, people do look away. “But Blogger D, aren’t older people a repository of life lessons?” Not always, but who am I to judge? If you need to ask, this might not be the place for you.
SPORTS FAN REVIEW: IN THE BEGINNING
December 1, 2023 by
Sports fan knows one thing: Rivalry. Without rivalry, sporting events resemble theater without the curtains. With rivalry we feel something deeper, way deeper, way down there. If you come from a certain time and place the only rivals that mattered were the Marshfield High School Pirates. But, everyone grows up. Right?
VOTING AGE FIRST PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER
November 30, 2023 by
I came of voting age just in time to vote for President Carter. Why not have a naval academy graduate in the White House? I was eighteen in 1974, not an election year. That was the year Gerald Ford pardoned former president Nixon.
REAL STRUGGLES? AREN’T THEY ALL
November 28, 2023 by
Real struggles begin with similar first words. From, “It’s a boy,” to, “It’s a girl.” Momma says good, daddy says good. What’s missing?
FAT SHAMER OVEREATS ON FAVORITE HOLIDAY, AGAIN
November 22, 2023 by
A fat shamer in a family of big people is a problem. Especially if it’s coming from a fat man who doesn’t know they’re fat. Look around and you’ll see them. More likely you’ll hear them.
ATTENTION ECONOMY PAID IN EXPOSURE . . . TO WHAT
November 19, 2023 by
The attention economy is an agreement between those seeking, and needing attention, and those who accommodate them. But what about the end-user, the audience, you know, The People I like to call ‘the rest of us?’ We still matter since the ‘I’m paying attention’ economy is based on time, not money. No money for those […]
RELATIONSHIP ABERRATION? WHO IS THE ABERRATION, WHO IS ‘NORMAL’
November 18, 2023 by
The big question in a relationship aberration is who is who? Who is the aberration for the other, who is the norm. So there I was sitting down to a late lunch with my wife talking about aberrations. I started by using a string as an example. String? Stay with me.
