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NW Boomer And Fortune

As In Tyrell Fortune From Oregon. Misinformed sports fans complain about July. No NBA, just the draft and Summer League. No NFL, just bad news and more bad news about players and guns. Major League Baseball might work since it’s the All-Star Game, but not with a list of players violating drug policy waiting for […]

Dark Boomer Treasure And Martha Hull

A Noir Memoir And Dark Boomer Treasure. The last time I thought so hard about the alphabet was someone asking, “Who told you to write? Who said you could write?” My answer, “Dad, what’s the big deal? I know the alphabet.” I sang the alphabet song to prove it. “Son,” he said, “you’re an English […]

Boomer Balloons Up

Without The Usual Weight Swing Do you have an event in your city you used to go to? You probably stopped going when your kids got old enough to go on their own. Now what? That is the baby boomer question, “What do we do now?”

Duck Chopping Block

Axes Always Look Bigger In The Air Says NW Boomer Will the NCAA finally explain the evils of Chip Kelly? All the man did was put Eugene on the recruiting trail. What he didn’t do was learn to wipe off fingerprints along the way. Maybe it’s excusable for a New Hampshire guy who’s never worried about […]

The Boomer Roomer

You see yourself as a caring baby boomer? If you live in Portland, Oregon, add a twist to keep it weird enough to fit in. Your kids are grown, maybe moved out. Your parents haven’t moved in with you and you haven’t moved in with them. Call it living the dream with your wife, husband, […]

The Fishing Baby Boomer

or, Why Does The Columbia River Like My Wife Better Being a Portland baby boomer means you’re an outdoorsman. Being an outdoorsman in Oregon means you hunt and fish. You just can’t go to your backyard and stand around and call yourself an outdoorsman. That’s not how it works, so get your fishing pole.

BEST GUN QUOTE

Lock And Load, Clear Down Range, Rock And Roll Are Portland baby boomers worried about the firearms debate? From the press the city gets you’d think it hard to fit anything between a free range egg-white omelet, an organic latte, and a happy light session with a book on tape. But yes, the gun nuts, the anti-gun, […]

COMPETITION LIFESTYLE

WHERE SPORTS AND ACADEMICS MEET IN HARMONY When you join a local gym in Oregon, the first thing you notice are shirts and sweats bearing college names. There’s always a USC t-shirt, or Husky hoodie, besides every variation on Oregon Duck gear and Oregon State Beaver status symbols. How come no one challenges the other-than-Oregon sports fan […]

Sutton Sorensen And The Boomer Song

Baby Boomers know how to listen to live music. We learned from John Fogarty singing Lodi with Creedence Clearwater Revival: “If I only had a dollar For ev´ry song I´ve sung And ev´ry time I had to play While people sat there drunk” Drunks ignoring live music? It still happens. When it doesn’t, you notice. […]