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SILENT MILLENNIALS WANT ANSWERS

June 24, 2014 by

Go Ahead And Text Them. Maybe you’ve noticed? Baby boomer children have an attitude. The print media loves it. Old writers have a new whipping post, young writers get to take offense until they get old enough to find a younger whipping post of their own. Or not. Until then, they want answers to the […]

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WELCOME TO THE TABLE. MILLENNIALS GET A BREAK

June 23, 2014 by

They Probably Won’t Notice. Like Goldilocks and the Three Bears, baby boomers rate millennials. Some are too entitled, some are too worried they might not get ‘theirs’, and some are just right. Even the NY Times comes out with an apology to millennials. Why? Because America is too caught up tending to the passing generations […]

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SCONES OF WISDOM, pt2: VISUALIZE

June 20, 2014 by

If You Can Dream It, You Can Make It. Measure up and mix. It’s good hand exercise. Like gardening, you get to mingle with the essentials of life. If that’s not a recipe for handing down knowledge, what is. Don’t be afraid to get dirty.

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WHATEVER YOUR CAUSE, IT’S LOST BECAUSE OF ONE THING

June 10, 2014 by

Population Growth And Who Makes A Difference. One joy of being a semi-fit baby boomer with kids is following them to the gym. If you workout with millennials, be ready for the comments. “We’re going to lift a little heavier than you’re used to.” Or, “Machines are for rookies and exercise people. We lift. We […]

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FINDING BOOMER POWER WITH THE WELLDIGGERS

June 6, 2014 by

 New Boomers And Old Dig In. Welldiggers started in January 2005. Nine years later ring leader and organizer Walt Duddington invited me to speak to a monthly meeting. He gave three open dates. I picked the first one available. Why would a blogger writing for BoomerPDX jump at the chance to address a group of networking […]

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BABY BOOMERS: FROM THE ‘I KNOW’ GENERATION TO ‘IDK’

May 25, 2014 by

A ‘One Up’ For The Rest Of You. Hardly a conversation goes by without one person saying, “I know,” in response to everything. Is this what passes for active listening? A more articulate version of uh huh, uh huh, or yeah right? Boomers have been the leading offender, but they’re losing ground. They might say […]

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THE BIRTHDAY BOY: HOW TO CELEBRATE YOUR DAD’S DAY

May 8, 2014 by

The Gillaspie children Wayne, Cleo, and Rex, c. 1948. This May 8th my Dad would have been 84 years old. Birthdays are important. To all baby boomers: Call your parents on their birthday. To all hipsters: Get off your scooter and show your parents you were raised right. Call them. To all millennials: Follow the […]

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BOOMER GOT A BRAND NEW BAG

April 30, 2014 by

And It’s Bigger Than Yours. You’ve seen the results of baby boomer parents who coddled their kids. Millennials get blamed for being self-centered, lazy, unmotivated. They’re tagged with some of the same names boomers were tagged with by their parents. It wasn’t fair then, and it’s not now. Except there is a big difference. The […]

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MILLENNIAL CELEBRITIES EXPLAIN AGING. WHO’S LISTENING?

April 28, 2014 by

The Dude Abides, Man. Boomers getting older. It’s a subject with a bright spotlight. From kids born between 1946 – 1964, from youthful fifty years olds to an ancient sixty eight, no generation said it louder, “We’re young and pretty, and you’re not.” Since their early go-to-hell days, baby boomers discovered they’re not any more […]

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10 BOOMER PARENT HABITS FOR MILLENNIALS

April 23, 2014 by

Why Reinvent The Play Pen? 1. You didn’t jump up every Sunday morning for church and now you feel like you’ve let the kids down spiritually. If you’ve checked the news over the past decade or so you’ve seen moves in The Church like a retiring pope and expressions of remorse after centuries of poor […]

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