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LOVE AFFAIRS OR LEARNING AFFAIRS

Do past love affairs affect the future? What happens between two people ought to be like Las Vegas: what happens there stays there. Except it never happens that way between two people, three or four people, or a whole team of people. No judgements, just call it a social agreement between adults who know how […]

MARRIED MILLENNIALS, PORTLAND WED pt. 3

Confessions of a helicopter parent on married millennials. Like the time you looked in the mirror and saw your dad’s face for the first time, or your mom’s, or both, married millennials change the picture. They won’t do it the way it’s been done, the normal way, or new normal. Instead, they’ll put their own […]

SAUCEBOX MILLENNIALS ON BROADWAY

Nothing good happens after midnight? Even for Saucebox Millennials? Go out with a group of millennials you’ve known since birth, kindergarten, or grade school, and you’ll see something familiar. They party like baby boomers in their twenties. They drink drinks and talk and carry on like barflies. There might be one among them who needs […]

HOW TO KNOW YOUR PLACE

Do You Know Your Place? Need To Learn? Look back on your earliest memories. Were you surrounded by everything you’d ever want? If you go back far enough, you don’t know what you want. You just remember stuff. Having siblings means sharing your stuff. Now think back on how you and your siblings shared things. […]

YOUR MOMMA IS SO PORTLAND MOMS BLOG THAT…

Portland baby boomerpdx blogger meets Portland Moms Blog blogger in a parking lot. Does a web address across the back window of a car in Haggen’s parking lot mean ask me about it? So I did. Jen Knight turned out to be sunshine on a cloudy day; the Portland Moms Blog founder, owner, and power […]

THE TICKING BABY BOOMERS

We didn’t start the fire? Maybe, but ticking baby boomers sure throw on the logs. A recent statement about relationships explains how you should never let others know what makes you tick. Why? If they know how you tick, they’ll wind you up on their schedule. Sounds stressful, like a hidden life with those who […]

GENERATION BOOMER AND THE DAMAGE DONE

They came in the as Boomer Generation, leaving as a Generation Boomer. Generation Boomer, at least those with millennial kids, lived up to the name. Our Millennials lead the list of the ‘most populous generation’ category. And most photogenic. You can’t be too smug when you’ve produced the biggest generation since the Baby Boomers, the […]

MILLENNIALS LIVE WITH PARENTS

Is it a good thing, or failure to launch? Talk to baby boomers and ask when they moved out. You get the same answer most of the time. “Right after high school,” is common. “After college,” is usual. It’s ‘after’ something. After deciding they don’t want any parent telling them what to do? After hearing, […]

MARRIAGE COUNSELING MATTERS

Who can explain a thirty year marriage. One woman? One man? Thirty years? And no one talks about it. No one wants to talk about it when Time Magazine asks if monogamy is dead. That’s part or the deal, or at least part of what I understood when I took the vow. Took the vow. […]

SPOILED MILLENNIALS: BABY BOOMER AFTERTHOUGHT OR LIFESAVERS

The truth behind the spoiled millennials, the Spoillennials. The newsman explains with a sly wink how millennials, the 18-34 year olds, adjust to life on their own. “It’s probably tough leaving home at 32.” Yucks all around. Millennials are the Peter Pan Generation, trumping the Peter Pan Syndrome; the Boomerang Generation, trumping a flying stick. […]