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Boomer Writers

June 5, 2013 by

Willamette Writers Meet In The Old Church Everyone has a story to tell. The group who meet once a month at Portland’s Old Church have a story to write. From the looks of them, it’s a non-denominational crowd, but the spirit is present. Last night was no different, except the speaker had more than a little preacher […]

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Boomers Know Portland?

May 30, 2013 by

How To Tell If Someone Just Showed Up You’ve been in the group where one person explains Portland from the ground up. Everyone listens while they down HUB beer. They tell historical stories like an OPB documentary. You’re impressed until you find out they moved here six months ago. Still, give them credit for trying […]

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Oregon Sports News

May 18, 2013 by

Serving Seasons Of Sports In 500 Words Portland baby boomers know a good thing when they see it. In a city famous for vision boomers play a large part. And they have help. In the spirit of being first on the important stuff, I present oregonsportsnews.com. This website, owned and edited by the inestimable Arran Gimba, works to cover […]

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Your Chiseled Core

May 17, 2013 by

or, You Haven’t Seen The Sights In A While? Maybe it’s a boomer thing, or a Portland baby boomer thing, but middle aged men with abs seems a little too much. True story: I’m sitting in the sauna and a guy walks in behind his chiseled abs. He’s no boomer, so his shorts droop. With […]

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BEST GUN QUOTE

May 8, 2013 by

Lock And Load, Clear Down Range, Rock And Roll Are Portland baby boomers worried about the firearms debate? From the press the city gets you’d think it hard to fit anything between a free range egg-white omelet, an organic latte, and a happy light session with a book on tape. But yes, the gun nuts, the anti-gun, […]

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Boomer Women

April 30, 2013 by

We Like Them, We Need Them, And So Do You How often do you see a gorgeous woman and think, ‘She must have been a beauty when she was younger?’ Or, ‘If she dyed her hair you’d never know how old she is.’ Baby boomer women get that all the time. They get knocked for over-doing, for under-doing, […]

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TIME TRAVELER

March 28, 2013 by

BABY BOOMERS SEE YOUR WORLD THROUGH NEW EYES (When a facebook friend is also the first English teacher you had who improved the language, pay attention. In his words:) ‘Home.’ Quite a word. I just traveled ‘home’ with my aging little brother up the Columbia River Gorge to Arlington/Hermiston in Oregon’s high desert. The land […]

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HAPPY BOOMER BIRTHDAY

March 21, 2013 by

THE STATE OF OREGON CELEBRATES WITH BOOMERPDX What’s the best part of an Oregon birthday party? It happens on Valentines Day. The big room at the Oregon History Center fills up with Portland Baby Boomers, among others. Everyone looks like they’re ready to load up the wagon and hit the Oregon Trail again.

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AUTHORS FOR BOOMERPDX

January 25, 2013 by

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 […]

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THE DEAD PLAYS BABY BOOMER BY THAT CLOSE

December 24, 2012 by

If you’ve been to a Grateful Dead show, then you know about the long strange trip. If it was a Dead show at the Gorge Amphitheater in George, Washington, it’s longer and stranger. But it was more than a Dead show. It was the Allman Brothers and the Doobie Brothers too. A Boomer-fest, but that’s […]

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