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YOU’VE BEEN EMASCULATED? HOW?

September 10, 2015 by

It Takes Balls To Admit You’ve Been Emasculated. Emascu-what? You go to work and someone is telling you what to do…and it’s your business. Come home and someone’s telling you what to do…and it’s not just your partner but your kids too. You flashback to hear Mick Jagger explain it all in Satisfaction: And that […]

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THE BABY BOOMER GUITAR

September 1, 2015 by

How To Fill Empty Hands With Music, Your Music, On Your Baby Boomer Guitar. From E string to E string, Every Body Goes Down An Elevator. Get in tune with a tuner and get busy. Skinny string E to fat string E, low bass to high treble: E, B, G, D, A, E. If you’re […]

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6 POINTS OF YOSEMITE THE UNUSUAL

August 17, 2015 by

More Than El Capitan, More Than Half Dome, Yosemite Brings Added Value. 1. A bear made front page news. At least the man it attacked made front page news when he saved himself by flashing back to Vietnam. He went face to face with the Viet Cong and a bear and won both times. 2. […]

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BOOMER AND THE BOMB

August 5, 2015 by

Every August Brings The Atomic Winds Of The Bomb Howling Out Of History. History is more than binge watching the Hitler Channel with a few War In The Pacific shows tossed in for balance. If history is your passion, but you aren’t a history major with an advanced degree, your opinion still matters. Every August […]

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BOOMER COACHES LITTLE LEAGUE?

July 29, 2015 by

When The Big Time Is Right Where You Are. The interesting news you hear from kid sports is usually about parents. And it’s not good news. Reading about someone going berserk at a youth sport game is your chance to say, “I’d never do that,” and you’re probably right. But you never know what you […]

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HOW HARD? BOOMER HARD

July 27, 2015 by

Growing Up During Baby Boomer Years Made You Hard. The last thing you want to be called is soft. Soft in the head, soft in the gut, soft arms. Part of living a sedentary life, not a lazy life but not active, is how it leaves a body. Soft. Soft and lumpy after too many […]

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BOOMER FUTURE, WITH BELLS

July 27, 2015 by

Paolo Soleri Sets The Stage With A Desert Vision Of Boomer Future. It might be a Star Wars set, a home on a distant planet, but it’s not. Instead you see the cement/earthen buildings of Cosanti in Arizona. Some of you might mistake Arizona for a distant planet, and you wouldn’t be far off. With […]

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BOOMER SUMMER SKIN CARE

June 25, 2015 by

Higher Temperatures Call For Baby Boomer Summer Skin Care. Skin is a living organ. It’s stuff that continually regenerates itself. If that’s hard to believe, scratch your arm over something dark. Look, you’re exfoliating and didn’t even know it. New skin sounds pretty good, like no maintenance. Baby boomers know better. We’ve been outside in […]

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ADULT RESIDENT HUNTER, 1975

June 19, 2015 by

From The Concrete Jungles Of Philadelphia To Central PA Forests: Why I Joined Adult Resident Hunters. Some people grow up hunting deer. I grew up around people who grew up hunting deer so it’s the same thing. Or close enough, and here’s why: Today, video games allow us to steal cars, commit war crimes in […]

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BABY BOOMER LOVE: AFTER THE FIRE

June 18, 2015 by

Don’t Burn Baby Boomer Love Letters, Review Them On BoomerPdx. From The BoomerPdx Archive: “I think at the age 27-29 is when you first really feel a ‘generation gap’ or are actually aware of the one’s below you. Naturally that means the ones above you are pushed into another level also. Do me a favor. […]

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