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STAYING GUN SILENT IS NOT MY STRONG SUIT

August 5, 2019 by

The idea of gun silent goes against the grain. Guns are not silent, just the opposite. The only gun silent people I know are gun people who share the idea that the only person who needs to know if they have a gun will know. They aren’t into the show and tell, the technical talk, […]

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WHAT SORT OF PARENT DID YOUR PARENTS WARN YOU ABOUT

December 19, 2018 by

    Did you become the sort of parent your parents warned you about? Are you surprised? We had stern warnings growing up about kids from unsupervised homes, which meant anyone different than us. Those were houses we weren’t allowed to visit. It was supposed to be a vaccine against hard partying high school nights. […]

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FATHER’S DAY REMINDER: WHO’S YOUR DADDY?

June 16, 2018 by

  When my kids were young we played a game of ‘Who’s Your Daddy’ one Father’s Day.   It started and ended with one question: “Who would you rather have as a dad than me?”   I had their answers all planned out. Of course they’d favor me?   Instead of a simple “You” as […]

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MILLENNIALS TURN ON YOU? IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT

March 29, 2017 by

    When millennials turn on you, don’t take it personally. But you will. See, it’s not you. Hard to imagine any baby boomer thinking anything’s not about them? That’s you and me and every hair-dyed, botoxed, Elvis-girdle-wearing-but-calls-it-a-weight-belt boomer man and woman alive. Millennials aren’t turning on you, so relax. But they are persistent about […]

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MARRIED MILLENNIALS, PORTLAND WED pt. 3

March 23, 2016 by

Confessions of a helicopter parent on married millennials. Like the time you looked in the mirror and saw your dad’s face for the first time, or your mom’s, or both, married millennials change the picture. They won’t do it the way it’s been done, the normal way, or new normal. Instead, they’ll put their own […]

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RODDY PIPER, BOOMER DAD

August 1, 2015 by

You Meet People In The Gym, People Like Roddy Piper If you’re not in the celebrity stalking business, where do you meet them? You really don’t. Roddy Piper was a gym rat at 24 Hour Fitness, working the cables and staying fit. I met his son in the sauna, sweating it our before one of […]

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Boomer Men Who Nurture

June 3, 2013 by

And The Dogs Who Love Them Tell the truth. You like to nurture. Admit it. You’ve learned how, and you like it. Some say a nurturer is born that way; others say it’s a result of a caring environment. You say the sooner you choose one or the other, the better. That’s not a green light to grow […]

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