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LETTER TO ENGLAND, IN ENGLISH. ENGLAND WRITES BACK

  Who writes a letter to England?   Before you scroll off to other click-bait, consider this: Write one letter to the person or place of your choice. One letter. Start with the usual, “Dear.” Then send it. If your letter sends death threats or rings fire alarms, this isn’t for you. Instead, call it […]

BABY BOOMER MUSEUM

The take away from a Baby Boomer Museum is awareness. A visit to a big museum should make you ask, “How do they decide what to keep?” It’s the same question you’ll ask later, wondering why you bought anything in the gift store. Unless you say, “I needed another tea towel,” you need a better […]

OREGON BABY BOOMER GRAY STREAK

Oregon baby boomer hopes for more in the home state. In Oregon it’s more blue sky and sunshine. More days of unexpected kindness. More reasons to trust. When it feels like your state, not just a current address, you need more goodness just to break even. And that’s if you’re lucky. Live in Oregon long […]

JOHN KITZHABER: OREGON BABY BOOMER GOVERNOR

Boomerpdx is a non-affilliated blog giving a baby boomer perspective to Portland, Oregon, and beyond. If it had a mission statement it would read like the Bible: Treat others as you would like to be treated. No one goes wrong with the Golden Rule. From a political point of view, especially in an election year, […]

Oregon Baby Boomer Wood

A Close Up On Clear Cuts. Oregon visitors see the forest and the trees. They also see forest management. Some new people expect a Disney-like forest with happy animals greeting them. Anything less is an affront to their senses, which feels like an affront to Oregon.

AUTHORS FOR BOOMERPDX

Is A Writer’s Birth Order Important Or Not? Zelda? To create better context for Dead White Male Authors, or DWMA, Boomerpdx and Think Tank 121 offers 20th Century giants of letters’ birth order to the general public. Director of Writing / Maintenance, Story Teller, no relation of the physicist Edward Teller, presented a paper from […]

REVIEW: OREGON EDUCATION

Oregon Education Scores Low Do you remember high school and talking to teachers about your future. Did they say be a teacher and get the summers off? Good idea. But something happened between then and now. Baby boomers like summers off. Everybody likes summers off. Few get summers off. Growing up Oregon and going to […]

Your Baby Boomer House

The Gordon House at the Oregon Garden inspires. From one visitor: “Americans share a common desire. We like to sleep under a roof. We like housing with walls and plumbing and electricity. We’re funny like that. “No refugee tent for us. No grass hut, mud hut, or cave. We like walls and floors. “We all […]

HEALING POWERS OF PORTLAND DIRT

MIN ZIDELL HEALING GARDEN The value of dirt changes with location. Start with City Hall dirt. It’s off the market, hidden like a secret you already know. But listen to the movers and shakers and you start wondering about airborne dirt virus. Move on to farm dirt. No one knows dirt better than a farmer, their livelihood depends on it. […]

BOOMER SON IN FOREVER YOUNG ENGLAND

  News from England arrived late. It touched home.   The story is pretty straight forward in the paper. “A Cambridge man charged with two attempted murders in a vicious street brawl in the city centre appeared in court yesterday.  Karl Eldin, 18, from Glebe Road, denied attempting to murder Alexander Lloyd and Ian Watters outside the […]