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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. […]

WINNING THE PAIN GAME

Beat The Pain Game, Then The Withdrawal Game. One of the regulars came in today, though not on his cherried out Harley. Wet and cold is no way to ride a hog if you don’t have to. Said he’d been out a couple of weeks for shoulder surgery. Five places on his shoulder got opened […]

ONE LOVE STORY

It Started Like Love Story, Then Everyone Said They Were Sorry. A nice man and nice lady met and became a nice couple. When they got married they were nice newly weds. They were nice parents when they had kids. A great family in the making, then things changed. One of the parents needed more, […]

BACK TO THE FUTURE AT 60

Back To The Future Or How’d You Know It Would Turn Out Like This? By 1985 the oldest baby boomers were around 40 years old. They were old hippies by then, or peppy preppies if they cut their hair and learned how to trade bonds. Yes the boomer generation was settling in quite nicely toward […]

BABY BOOMER YOUTH GAMES

Could Kids Today Benefit From The Game Of Stretch Or Mumbly Peg? If Millennials and the rest of us want to meet on level ground, we must learn to share our games. A game on television is the easy part. Click a station, then another, until you find a game you both want to watch. […]

LEAVING HIPSTER PORTLAND

When You Leave Hipster Portland What Do You See In The Rear View Mirror? It rained yesterday; it was supposed to rain. Not mudslide, bury your car, knock you house off its foundation rain, but still wet. That’s news, right? Rain in Portland? To cover all the bases, it got dark last night, too. You […]

SPORTS TALK TAKES A TURN

That’s sports talk brand builder Colin Cowherd on the label of a Rogue beer. Dan Patrick has a beer with his name on it, not his picture, so score for Cowherd. Colin Cowherd is the ESPN guy who questioned Dan Patrick’s work ethic after the last Super Bow. Patrick answered by saying Cowherd was flexing […]