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WANDER DOWNTOWN PORTLAND? ONLY IF . . .

An overview of downtown Portland vacancies shows nothing to report.
Everything is fine until you’re on the ground getting a closer look.
My network of reporters check in with stories of abandoned blocks and empty office buildings with all the lights on.
Let’s take a look from the street. Does this look abandoned? [Read More…]

FILLING TIME AND SPACE, ADDING AND SUBTRACTING

If you make any effort filling time and space for your own benefit, there are always side effects.
You want to be strong, stay strong, and still fit in your clothes.
You want to be good, look good, and make a difference in your community.
You want things, but they’re hard to reach, hard to get, and hard to hold on to.

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VANPORT OREGON HISTORY MARKER

There’s a lot of learning going on when you stop at an Oregon History sign.
We were headed to the Expo Center for the RV Show, me and my wife.
Wife: Look, an historical marker. Want to stop?
Me: No.
So we stopped, we stopped for a section on Vanport, Oregon history.
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GRAVEYARD WALK IN A GARDEN OF STONE

My father is buried in the veteran’s section of a Klamath Falls graveyard.
I voted for the Willamette National Cemetery but he lived near Klamath Falls so it made sense.
The last time I visited was a dark, rainy, day with the irrigation pipes laid out and sprinklers helicoptering around.
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VETERANS DAY, 2026

Behind every veteran on Veterans Day are people who got them on their way.
In this photo the force of nature is on the right.
It’s my Mom.
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toughen up

Miranda Dating Rights For The New Era Of Rising STD

    Have you ever asked someone out on a date?   Probably.   Did you read them the ‘Dating Rights’ questions?   Going out on a limb here with probably not.   Why would you?

BILL GATES KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HPV AND HIV?

    Bill Gates is not a doctor. Nor is he a college graduate. So how is it he’s smart enough to know the difference between HIV and HPV?   This is a man smart enough to give medical advice to the most powerful man in the world, leader of the Free World, President Donald […]

HEALTHCARE VOTE FOR CANCER COURAGE, CANCER COWARD

What are the chances of any U.S. Senator feeling the pain of cancer, or any other pre-existing condition? John McCain is front and center with a brain tumor. Let’s watch his healthcare vote to decide if the rest of America deserves the same medical attention as a U.S. Senator. This is the Navy flier who […]

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boomer years

MILLENNIAL APOLOGY SINKS IN

Why Baby Boomers Need A Millennial Apology.   1. We’re sorry our music is so lame we have listen to classic rock. Who really supports the Stones and Rod Stewart in concert? 2. We’re sorry for thinking we’re smart enough to run the world in our 20’s. We’d be better at it but I’ve got […]

PORTLAND HEAT: HOW TO CELEBRATE BREAKING RECORDS

    Last August one of my partners in crime (aka one of my sons) and I worked on inventory inside a few Arizona warehouses in record breaking heat. At least it broke the record for heat outside a sauna.   Yesterday’s record breaking heat was about thirty five degrees cooler, which was a nice […]

PROPERTY OWNER FROM THE OTHER SIDE

    What to expect from the property owner process that never ends, changes in the middle, and no light the end of the property owner tunnel to hell.   From behind the seductive eyes of a city’s economic development officer:   I see the likes of you come in here all day, every day. […]

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buckle up

PORTLAND MOVEABLE FEAST: COMMUNITY

    “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” Would Hemingway say the same about a Portland moveable feast? He would if he booked Eastburn for dinner. Try […]

MESA ARIZONA, CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE

Where are you right now? Do you wish you were somewhere else? Instead of working on the wish list of where you’d rather be, take a good look around. You may be in the center of the universe, like Mesa Arizona.

PORTLAND CELEBRATION SUNDAY

Make Portland Celebration Sunday every Sunday in Portland. Kris Krisofferson wrote a song for Portland Celebration Sunday. It probably works in other cities, too, but BoomerPdx likes Portland. On a Sunday morning sidewalk I’m wishing Lord that I was stoned ‘Cause there’s something in a Sunday That makes a body feel alone. And there’s nothin’ […]

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