EDUCATE, VALIDATE, FOLLOW THAT KNOWLEDGE
The work to educate people is an uphill climb. Nothing shows it better than the last year and a half. The corona virus has revealed an unexpected side of America. It’s the side where marginal public...
View ArticleVICTIM DEFAULT AND YOU’RE ALWAYS THE ONE?
Victim default: “There you go again.” Or: “When did passive-aggressive wake up?” My favorite: “That mood swing make you dizzy?” If you want a professional opinion who do you ask? A professional, of...
View ArticleHEARTBREAK HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF LONELY STREET
I checked into Heartbreak Hotel on Monday, except it had another name. To my surprise there wasn’t a line at the desk; the crowd was already inside. The crowd is everywhere in the news. Rob Van Pelt...
View ArticleRELAYED STRESS: BAD NEWS TRAVELS LIKE WILDFIRE
Relayed stress comes from hearing and repeating bad news, and it doesn’t get enough attention. Finding bad news is easy. It’s as easy as opening a magazine, a newspaper; as easy as looking at a phone...
View ArticleWHY DETAILS MATTER FOR CITY AND SCIENCE
Details matter as much to nature boy as they do city boy, but they’ll still fight you about it. Let’s leave it to plant biologists to break it down, to explain the details of plant life, because isn’t...
View ArticleOVER CONSUMPTION? LET’S BLAME BABY BOOMERS
Over consumption didn’t start January 1, 1946, the dawning of the baby boom generation following WWII. Though not everyone agrees. Let’s call them short sighted for now. Instead, they see a world...
View ArticleBOOMER STATUS: WHAT MAKES A TRUE BOOMER
Boomer status, baby boomer that is, is more than a birth date. Technically speaking, anyone born between 1946 through 1964 is a baby boomer, but there’s a big difference between the front end and the...
View ArticleSPORTS LITERACY FOR BOOMERS: KNOW WHEN ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
Sports literacy runs through all sports, not just your favorite team, or my favorite team, though that would make things so much easier. It’s more than the Yankees, the Cowboys, or the Celtics; more...
View ArticleBOOMER ADDICTION WITH JOE WALSH AND SAMMY HAGAR
Boomer addiction and music go hand in hand. The steps were laid out early for boomer teens. If it wasn’t all about sex, drugs, and rock and roll, then what was it about? Turn on, tune in, drop out?...
View ArticleOVER EMPATHETIC? YOU MIGHT BE A BOOMER, OR BOOMER RAISED
Empathetic, or over empathetic? Save the whales, or save the oceans? Boomers raised their kids with more awareness than any generation before or since. At least that’s what the narcissists in the group...
View ArticlePARENTAL ADVICE FROM THE HISTORY OF ALL PARENTAL ADVICE
Parental advice is best served as a hand-me-down plate. That is, tell your kids what your parents told you so they’ll know what to tell their kids. Sound complicated? It’s not. Instead, it is...
View Article2021 REVIEW: MOST READ POSTS ON BOOMERPDX
The 2021 review shows 14,941 readers visited here for 19,549 ‘views.’ It’s the second highest number of visitors after a decade of writing on BoomerPDX. While big-time bloggers see these numbers as a...
View ArticleBOOMER TIMING? THE ‘BETTER LIFE’ CLOCK STARTS NOW
Boomer timIng started the moment mom and dad decided on a better life for themselves. “The kids will have a better life because of us,” weren’t their exact words. Some of our parents grew up in rural...
View ArticleINTERNET SHOWTIME SATURDAY WITH A SIDE OF HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
I’m a big fan of internet showtime, the daily scroll. But I keep it simple. I’m not looking for verification, authentication, or validation. Not looking for lawyers, guns, or money. What I’m looking...
View ArticleYOU WANT ME TO WANT TO?
In Patrick DeWitt’s novel French Exit, the mom asks her thirty-two year old son to get something for her. “Please bring me my cup.” “I will if you want me to.” “I want you to want to.” And he obeys. So...
View ArticleCAPITAL ONE TRUST WEAKNESS NEEDS EXERCISE
How’s your Capital One trust? If it’s weak, you can fix it. But start small. You don’t tell new people all of your secrets at once and you don’t throw your important data at whoever asks for it. I...
View ArticleWEIRD PEOPLE? LIKE WHO
Weird people you know invite you over for a backyard barbecue. That’s the scene. What could go wrong? They pull this out: Hearts and Gizzards. Let the grilling begin. Chances are good that this has...
View ArticleROCKY RELATIONSHIP WITH WRITING?
My rocky relationship with writing took a turn yesterday. It happens, but this one was avoidable. Boomerpdx was offline for ten hours. The longest ten hours of my . . . not my life. I just did other...
View ArticleYOUNG MEN LEARNING TO VOTE
Young men can do their own math on voting, but I’ll help: One man, one vote; one woman, one vote. You have one vote, bro, and it may not seem like much, but that’s what it is. One. Vote. Does it even...
View ArticleSENIOR CITIZEN TO JUNIOR CITIZEN
Being a senior citizen is easy. Wake up every day and thank your parents for decent DNA and a good immune system. That’s it, except for the other stuff. The other stuff? What other stuff? Lucky people...
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