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WHEN A STRONG VOICE SINGS YOUR SONG, LISTEN UP When Jackie Peterson takes your measure just know the yardstick she uses has two roles. Bring your best to the test and you’ll be fine. Boomerpdx started in her classroom along with many businesses created with her help. Portland baby boomers are in luck. Sharing air […]

William F. Nolan Stand-Up

LOGAN’S RUN AUTHOR BRINGS BIG LAUGHS FOR WILLAMETTE WRITERS What do Portland area writers do the first Tuesday night of every month? If they don’t attend the Willamette Writers meeting at the Old Church, they ought to. The first Tuesday in March brought William F. Nolan to downtown Portland to talk about his thirty-three years in Hollywood. […]

ARGO FOR YOURSELF

BOOMERPDX PICKS THE OSCAR WINNERS EARLY The Oscars 2013 announced Best Picture and Clint Eastwood came forward dressed as Ben Affleck. It was a good costume. Fooled a billion people. Just when you thought the tall dashing actor, director, producer line had played out in Hollywood, here comes Ben. Like Eastwood, Ben Affleck takes something […]

DOWN TO THE CROSSROADS

GARY POTTS LIFTS UP IF YOU’RE SINKING DOWN After you’ve been around people enough, you understand their element. Go fishing with a neighbor who can’t hammer a nail and he reads a river like a road map. He points to a spot and says, “That’s where the fish are” and you pull them out of the water likes […]

BOOMERPDX BUSINESS ED.

ARE YOU BETTER, SMARTER, AND RICHER YET You’re reading this post because of one person. Jackie B. Peterson. In a changing world, she rides the change wave. Call her a change agent, a fan of success. Call her a professor, a guide through dark waters. Or call her the author of Better, Smarter, Richer and you’ll […]

Blog And The Brain Say Write Real

Real writing? Inspired by Seth Godin Boomerpdx depends on professional staff to get things right. Dr. Clockenhand, Director of Time Management, recently presented a paper on blogging and time: Often, the illiterate, or sadly, the non-literate, see writing as something done by ‘someone with way too much time on their hands to sit and type.’ They […]

John McAfee Joins Portland Baby Boomer Dating

The famous John McAfee lands in Portland, Oregon? One question asked outside the city: “Why, why, why?” Everyone from Beaverton to Troutdale knows why: “It’s the dating scene.” Mr. McAfee, may I call you John? Life in the NW is more casual, but you know that already. Let’s get started. John, hit Baby Boomers Social Club. Check […]

Boomer Rock Gods Don’t Fade Away

Portland Baby Boomers like their rock and roll just so: in time, in tune, and loud. It goes for all boomers everywhere. Other music fans are no different. Classical music reaches for different emotions but stays in tune. With so many instruments it must be challenging. Bands returning to roots style music like Mumford and Sons use […]

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. […]

Boomerpdx Explains Why England Rules

It’s More Than KEEP CALM AND PUT THE KETTLE ON, But That’s Where It Starts A baby boomer view of history shows certain traits. Spain came to the New World and created more disruption than a Mexican mud slide, then left their language and culture. England arrived with different goals. Pounding the populace and snatching treasure […]