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FAMILY SHAME HELPS A GROWN MAN SCHEDULE CHECK UP

February 4, 2018 by

  In a traditional wedding picture there’s a couple staring at the camera with faces radiating the joy of the day.   It’s a look of happiness as they look forward to the rest of their lives together.   Getting married is more than a date, it’s a roll of the dice on the long […]

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Run Away From Home, Family, Life. But To Where?

September 11, 2017 by

If you were lucky growing up you couldn’t run away. Well you could, but would you end up someplace better?   My hometown is North Bend, Oregon. I attended the same grade school, junior high, and high school all in the same school district. So did most of my graduating class.   We didn’t hear […]

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FAMILY COLLECTIONS OVERLOAD? OFFERUP

August 22, 2017 by

    Where is the line between family collections and hoarding? How can you tell when you’re over that line, way over?   In this well researched post on BoomerPdx I will dip into the experience of a Museum Collection Manager for an interview. Readers familiar with such details will automatically know what I’m talking […]

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PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS, pt2: FAMILY TRAUMA

May 5, 2017 by

Illness defines family trauma over time and it’s exhausting. Remember the movie Ordinary People? The family dynamic wasn’t defined by illness, but death of a child. It didn’t go well for the emotional state of all. There’s was a sudden adjustment with a lifetime effect. Living with a pre-existing condition, or around others with pre-existing […]

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DOES YOUR FAMILY HATE YOU ENOUGH? GET BUSY

April 7, 2017 by

  Family hate means family values 0.  Are you the right gender? Check early pictures to see if you’re wearing the right clothes. If you’re a guy and your baby pictures look like a girl, relax. General Douglas MacArther wore a dress and long hair as a child. It was the fashion, and it didn’t hurt […]

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BOOMER FAMILY AND PAT CONROY

May 13, 2015 by

If The Great Santini Couldn’t Break His Family, What Broke Your Boomer Family? The author Pat Conroy, one year older than the first baby boomer, had a traumatic childhood by most accounts. He’s a good boomer spokesman for the voiceless masses who wonder why things go wrong. Call him a senior boomer. He mined his […]

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AIRPORT SECURITY LINE MANNERS

May 16, 2024 by Leave a Comment

Airport security lines have rules we follow, or we don’t make the plane. No jokes, no references, no greeting to your buddy Jack with, “Hi, Jack.” If you don’t know the rules and decide to f around and find out, you not only won’t make the plane, you might find yourself on ‘the list.’ The […]

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VOTE DAY WITH BALLOT ENCLOSED

May 14, 2024 by 4 Comments

Vote day is finished with the ballot in the signature required envelope. It took about five minutes. Using a black ink pen I darkened the horizontal ovals for my people. You’re doing the same for your people? Let’s be clear who ‘our people’ are.

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MOTHER’S DAY LADY REVIEW

May 12, 2024 by 2 Comments

After one miss on Mother’s Day with sick kids, I never missed another. During the phone call to tell her about missing she decided to tell me the nuts and bolts of my adventurous conception. The date, the name of the motel, the works. What mom doesn’t share that story? I’ve since stayed in the […]

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STORM CHASING IN THE CANCER WARD

May 8, 2024 by Leave a Comment

Storm chasing without a tornado on the horizon? The storm in the cancer ward is chemo therapy that runs through everything in your body sweeping out the good and the bad cells. It shakes you down to your core hoping the good cells prevail. Not everyone is built for this particular battle.

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