From Local To National, Send The Word: NO Two stories need broader exposure, a specialty for BoomerPDX. One comes from a local sports columnist, the other from every media outlet worthy of the name. The Oregonian’s John Canzano wrote about a forgotten woman from an a Corvallis assault. Why forgotten? No charges, no crime. Part […]
BRUCE: THE BOOMER BOSS @ 65
September 23, 2014 by
I was twenty years old 1n 1975 and living in South Philadelphia just over the border from New Jersey. A neighborhood woman named Mary Ann said she’s going to a Bruce Show, that I ought to go along. It wasn’t a date idea as much as it was a right of passage. A Jersey comet […]
THE WEED MESSAGE TO LAKE OSWEGO FOOTBALL
August 26, 2014 by
Ten Lake Oswego Football Players Suspended For Early Season Games. One Quit. What happens in Vegas might stay in Vegas, but the same rules don’t apply to football camp. Imagine yourself as a high school sophomore good enough to play varsity in one of Oregon’s best football programs. It’s so good that players from other […]
DON’T BE A BABY, BOOMER, JUST JUMP THE FENCE
July 28, 2014 by
Age, like real estate, is about location, location, location. The beauty of Portland, Oregon is its proximity to the outdoors, great and otherwise. We’re not talking about the coast or the mountains an hour away. It’s Forest Park, and the walk starts under the Thurman Street Bridge. When you take someone on a hike from […]
OREGON’S GREATEST ATHLETE (ever)
July 7, 2014 by
Do you open the Oregonian’s sports page and find soccer? If it’s not the World Cup, it’s the Timber or Thorns’ players flinging around. Isn’t it still baseball season? We expect to see diving catches in the out field, runners breaking up double plays, the stretch on first, not wild soccer players kneeing the vertebrae […]
THE BOOMERS’ BIGGEST BURDEN
June 16, 2014 by
(one version of this post appears on oregonlive.com.) News about one generation or another usually explains what is wrong. Bad news has a reputation. Good news? Who wants to hear about someone doing better than you? Seniors being preyed on by unscrupulous contractors or relatives is always news. So are young people trying to create […]
REACHING FOR FATHER’S DAY
June 15, 2014 by
Go More Than Halfway Talking to my boomer friends reveals a divide between those who use social media and those who don’t. One of my besties said he’d have no relationship with his kids if he hadn’t learned to text on his smart phone. Another said he wasn’t caving to the trend. He wanted a […]
PROTOCOL FOR THE NEW MIA: VETERAN PATIENTS IN THE VA
June 4, 2014 by
Please Make The Call At The Bottom Of This Post. Show Some Boomer Power. Portland, Oregon’s Veterans Affairs Medical Center list jobs on usajobs.gov. The stated goal on usajobs.gov is “Working For America.” Abraham Lincoln drives the point further with this quote: “To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, […]
10 POINT BOOMERPDX LIST FOR BLAZER VICTORY
May 10, 2014 by
1. Submit GO BLAZERS! picture to The Oregonian. 2. Check email to confirm winning the Oregonian’s #ripcityfan contest: two tickets to Game 4. 3. Tape an autographed newspaper page of Clyde Drexler near the TV for the bleed-over effect. 4. Set Clyde’s Wheaties box on the mantle to capture the whole room with a Breakfast […]
BOOMERS MOVE AWAY FROM THE FOURTH ESTATE
May 5, 2014 by
The News? We’re Talking About The News? Print journalism shines brightest when a lowly reporter speaks truth to power. Woodward and Bernstein wrote about President Nixon and you know how that turned out. Who’s been a go-to reporter since then? Mario Lopez? Once you hit the big time in books and movies based on your […]
