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Use The Portland Blues

Portland baby boomers have more choices for a music festival. Any summer weekend you can go downtown for a free concert at Saturday Market. One weekend a year you can go to the big show by the river. If it’s good enough for Robert Plant, why not you. All that’s left is choosing your company.

Boomer Blues Backlash

Robert Plant Headlines Waterfront Blues Fest What’s the greatest fear of going to a Classic Rock concert? Baby boomers face this one all the time. Is it watching a dream weaver come undone in front of your eyes? That the singer shows up so out of shape they huff and puff through their set? That their […]

Sutton Sorensen Rides

From Kung Fu Bakery To Nashville Do you have friends online? Subscribe to their blogs? Listen to their Sound Cloud? Or you say you do then delete the email on delivery. Who would know if you read and listened to everything, or not? At least you subscribed and made that effort. But what do you […]

The Boomer Roomer

You see yourself as a caring baby boomer? If you live in Portland, Oregon, add a twist to keep it weird enough to fit in. Your kids are grown, maybe moved out. Your parents haven’t moved in with you and you haven’t moved in with them. Call it living the dream with your wife, husband, […]

Boomer House

First Published On Boomercafe.com (click on over)   Memo to young families: Pay attention to other parents as the years pass. You’ll see them again. My kids are in their twenties now, but for one pre-school birthday we invited kids and moms from the class. I was too busy on the ‘entertainment’ side and didn’t notice the adults. Working […]

LIFE AND DEATH IN BOOMER PORTLAND

Where Do You Fit In With Boomer Style Let’s face it, if you’re a baby boomer your life is over. The problem is no one told you. Younger smart alecks think you’re sticking around to keep them out of the big jobs and big money. They accuse you of bankrupting America with your anticipated retirement […]

A Christian Burghardt Moment

Portland Baby Boomers Know The Sound When They Hear It Every boomer has a musical moment, a memory of a singer or song so big it overwhelms them still. And it’s better than anything you’ve got because they heard it first. The Who do it. Johnny Cash makes it happen. Let It Be? There are no toppers. […]

PLAY GUITAR?

WHERE MUSIC THERAPY AND PHYSICAL THERAPY HOOK-UP Spend time with someone afflicted with a movement disease and you’ll get this: Fine motor skills go first. Any baby boomer know this, too. You don’t run faster and jump higher with every birthday. PF Flyer might have made the promise, but you’ve grown out of those shoes.

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 […]

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. […]