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CIGARETTE SMOKE ‘EM IF YOU GOT ‘EM? DON’T DO IT

    Tobacco and cigarette smoke, the stuff of dreams and nightmares.   The dream part comes first. Light a stick and enjoy. All you’ve got to do is breath in, breath out, and watch the cigarette smoke curl into shapes. Later comes the nightmare part, the regret, the tubes, the hospital smell, the faces […]

HUSBANDING 101? MILLENNIAL SAYS NOT SO FAST

    Married guys who don’t cheat on their wives know all about Husbanding 101. Their game, our game, relates to men and women who have too much to say about the wife. Can anyone hear a man say “the wife” and not think he’s ‘one of those?’ In this example ‘the wife’ is the […]

MILLENNIALS TURN ON YOU? IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT

    When millennials turn on you, don’t take it personally. But you will. See, it’s not you. Hard to imagine any baby boomer thinking anything’s not about them? That’s you and me and every hair-dyed, botoxed, Elvis-girdle-wearing-but-calls-it-a-weight-belt boomer man and woman alive. Millennials aren’t turning on you, so relax. But they are persistent about […]

MAKING SENSE TO UNRELATED MILLENNIALS

    If you can talk to your kids, will unrelated millennials listen too? You could tell he was a good guy with good manners. He answered easy questions, but still added value. Twenty four, lives at home, looking for a job. And all you asked was his age? This is part of the millennial […]

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 […]

MAN ANTHEM: COMMITMENT TO YOUR WOMAN, FAITH IN YOUR MAN

    Women looking for THE ONE need to apply the Man Anthem Test.   The notion of one Man Anthem, and only one, goes against the grain on most sites. The Good Men Project listed ten, as in top ten Man Anthems, with Queen’s We Are The Champions at #1. While I love the […]

PORTLAND RENTS A LIFESTYLE, WHO PAYS THE FREIGHT

  One solution to rising Portland rents   At first tiny apartments got the shit because they went up in neighborhoods with streets jammed by normal parking. Now the micro havens are a solution, a reason for a drop in the rent crisis. And those bikes? Millennials and bikes and small apartments? It happens. Add […]

BOOMERPDX CHOICE: LIVING YOUNG OR OLD, LIVING IN PORTLAND

    Help a family move an elderly parent a few times to find the BoomerPdx Choice   A few things people new to Portland can’t fathom is how living in Portland felt in the late 70’s and early 80’s. It was a dive city. A studio apartment between NW 20th and 21st on Lovejoy […]

HOW TO AVOID BAD MARRIAGES FOR A BRIGHTER FUTURE

    Help millennials avoid bad marriages by following these steps   Dating mores change over the years. From meeting someone, meeting their parents and siblings, to marriage and living happily ever after, things change. You meet their parents, they meet your parents. What could go wrong? These meetings always have agendas, some hidden, some […]

MILLENNIAL MARATHONERS NEED EXTRA LSD

  Long, Slow, Distance running helps Millennial Marathoners.   Who runs a marathon? That’s really the first question. 26.2 miles all at once is a big step for anyone to take. You read stories all the time about marathon runners cranking out one a week for a year, or training to run all the big […]