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5 Ways Portland Baby Boomers End The World Boomer Style

The Mayan Calendar Strikes 12-21-12 You’ve heard the legends, seen the movie, read the book. The Mayan calendar doesn’t have a happy ending. Portland Baby Boomers have it easier than other Baby Boomers in America. Boomerpdx is here for you in these dire moments. If it is The End, this is what you’ll need: Music […]

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 […]

King Arthur, The Baby Boomer’s Friend In Need

If reading tales of kings and queens encourage a child’s imagination, dragging them up the treacherous goat trails of Tintagel Castle makes it real. Who does that? Baby Boomers seeking greater cultural meaning. King Arthur is a good one to focus on. You know the story well enough to sound like an authority. Sword in the […]

Boomer’s Father Dreams Eternal, And So Does Boomer

Did Your Parents Share Their Dreams? Did they share them with their boomer babies or implant them for the road ahead? You might wonder ‘if I live their dreams, does that mean not living mine?’ It even sounds like a therapy question. You’ll never measure up either way. Boomer’s parents hoed a tough row. That’s the […]

Boomerpdx Races The Deer Hunter, Baby Boomer Epic

A man, a young man of twenty-one, sat on a bench with head in hands. He looked exhausted, spent, like a marathoner running under two hours. But it was more. Fallen soldier ink marked his shoulder, a rifle with a helmet at the top and boots at the bottom. Any tattoo should be well planned. A fallen […]

Five Ways Boomerpdx Clears The Fog Of War For Baby Boomers

December 7, 1941 “a date which will live in infamy.” What about the day after? What do Baby Boomers call December 8, 2012? Do you call it Saturday, and let it go at that? Is that good enough? You can do better. Let’s start.

The Baby Boomer Face Of Spain During An Emergency

Who Do You Call The best way for Baby Boomers to learn a language is living it. My kids did it. My wife did it. Now it’s my turn? Spain seemed like the best place to learn Spanish since that’s the language’s origin, as I’ve been told. But it sounds different in Spain than it […]

Mrs. Gert Boyle, Measured For Toughness

One Size Does Not Fit All A young baby boomer might have looked for the definition of ‘tough’ in their dad’s sock drawer. If they found a Silver Star and Purple Heart, then move to the closet and see Marine Corps Dress Blues, they’ve seen enough. After I pulled an Army tour, I asked my dad about […]

A Baby Boomer Sandwich Christmas

And One, And Two, And Three Boomerpdx readers know the Sandwich Generation. It’s a name made up to explain a segment of people raising kids and caring for parents at the same time. The old name was family, but it got updated. Baby Boomers love updates. Family traditions during the holidays don’t get updated. For […]