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HOW OLD IS ‘OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER?’

December 23, 2023 by

How old were you when you first heard it? My memory says I was a seven year old who couldn’t field a grounder after my last ‘bad hop’ bounced off my face. I wasn’t technically afraid of the ball, except I was afraid of what the ball might do. When one of the baseball fields […]

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WEAPONS FOR HOME DEFENSE: WHERE DO YOU LIVE?

March 23, 2018 by

    Home defense begins in the home, but you knew that. The real question of weapons and home defense starts with location, location, location.   I met a Portland man who bought a former crack house. Customers who didn’t get the press report on the crack wire crawled through his windows for a year. […]

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THE AVATAR XPRIZE NEXT DOOR

October 8, 2016 by

Winners of Avatar Xprize: You, an Avatar, or both? BoomerPdx Insider Andy Collen of Happy Trials Animation broke the Avatar Xprize news. From Andy’s linkedin post, “The Future Is Avatars:” Just this month I have had the privilege of working on Avatar XPRIZE, innovation designed to unite science, technology and entertainment for the greater good. […]

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HOW TO EXPLAIN MODERN PROBLEMS TO THE GREATEST GENERATION

July 31, 2014 by

Boomers in the Sandwich Generation have a lot to cover. Wedged between the Greats from WWII and Millennials, baby boomers in combined households find one group over-informed by network news, and the other who understand world events from Comedy Central. The younger group has time to figure things out on their terms. To the older […]

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In The (Baby Boomer) Beginning – 1946

September 11, 2013 by

Highlights From The First Year. The earliest Boomers came in a ground breaking year. It wasn’t their world yet, but the adults had it set up for them. An overview of 1946 shows how the times changed, and how they stayed the same. Read on:

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