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American Football Matters More Now Than Ever Before

American football players at every level are our betters. From Pop Warner to the NFL they show us how to get up after being knocked down, how to play after a painful hit, and how to listen. Even with helmets and pads and identifying uniforms, American football is a hurting game. Helmet […]

Japanese Exchange Student A Perfect Portland Fit

What’s better than traveling to new places and meeting the locals? Being the locals and meeting travelers. A Japanese exchange student proved the rule this summer. With kids out of high school and college you’d think a couple of empty nest boomers would enjoy themselves with the usual things baby boomers get […]

High School Football Explained For Better Understanding

It doesn’t take a genius to understand the risk of playing high school football. But if you need a genius to explain football from top to bottom, ask retired Baltimore Raven John Urschel. He’s enough of a genius. At the old age of twenty six he hung his jock on an […]

Oregon Loggers Work In The Woods Singing Johnny Cash

Tillamook State Forest has plenty of trees, and plenty of piles made by Oregon loggers. Visitors from around the world need to see the beauty of Oregon, and the clear cuts. A close up view. One belongs to the other. I wouldn’t advise anyone going into a working coal mine, but why […]

Air Oregon My Oregon Paradise West Of Cascades

For a moment let’s skip the romanticized view of the state. The brown patches across these images are clear cut lumber sections, replanted with more trees. Why are they brown? It’s not because of brown trees. Air Oregon shows too much. Oregon, My Oregon via Oregon Blue Book, music by Henry […]

Portland Italian Festival, Portland Haute Couture

Not Little Italy, but Big Italy, Portland’s Italian Festival swinging in the biggest living room in Oregon, Pioneer Square. Food, beer, and music mix to show the city in the best light possible, like an Italian chandelier. Is it fun? Educational? Mesmerizing? All of that along with beautiful Italian women in […]

FAMILY COLLECTIONS OVERLOAD? OFFERUP

Where is the line between family collections and hoarding? How can you tell when you’re over that line, way over? In this well researched post on BoomerPdx I will dip into the experience of a Museum Collection Manager for an interview. Readers familiar with such details will automatically know what I’m talking […]

THE REAL GEORGE MARSHALL, AKA GRANDPA

George Marshall, George Warren Marshall, Grandpa Marshall, a ground breaker for the ages. He was a logger, a tree feller, of a different stripe. Once I asked him, “What’s the difference between you and the rest of the loggers drunk and fighting in bars after work?” “That’s not the sort of life to […]

ABIQUA FALLS DREAMSCAPE, OREGON TREASURE

Who knew of the Abiqua Falls dreamscape? The last thing a know-it-all wants is something new, something they don’t know. It’s a problem for some, a challenge for others. A short walk to a river and waterfall? That’s what the listings say, but not if you like your car. Then it’s a longer walk, […]

American Football Matters More Now Than Ever Before

Japanese Exchange Student A Perfect Portland Fit

High School Football Explained For Better Understanding

Oregon Loggers Work In The Woods Singing Johnny Cash

Air Oregon My Oregon Paradise West Of Cascades

Portland Italian Festival, Portland Haute Couture

FAMILY COLLECTIONS OVERLOAD? OFFERUP

THE REAL GEORGE MARSHALL, AKA GRANDPA

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE LIVES IN BEAVERTON OREGON

ABIQUA FALLS DREAMSCAPE, OREGON TREASURE

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