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ONLINE PRESENTS, OR ONLINE PRESENCE

March 12, 2024 by

Online presents are the gifts you give yourself. And you’ve earned them, however magnificent or meager they may be. Baby boomers know all about the differences between magnificent and meager. So should you. Please continue.

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ADULT FRIENDSHIP FAILS TO AVOID

April 21, 2023 by

Adult friendship is a balancing act. They are either too friendly, or distant. Too enthusiastic, or remote. And it’s always ‘them?’ Ok, boomer.

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YOUNG PEOPLE NEED BETTER NARRATIVE FROM ELDERS?

August 22, 2022 by

Young people want to hear from the olds? They need a better narrative from us? Us boomers? Sure they do, just like you did when you were young. We heard something, but what it was ain’t exactly clear.

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LIFETIME AWARDS? WHY NOT START EARLY

December 22, 2021 by

When do lifetime awards start pouring in? Angry Boomers say Millennials got too many awards already, trophy after trophy for signing up on soccer, indoor soccer, basketball, baseball, and football teams. And they are right. So what? Who has a problem with a kid trophy? It might be the only one they’ll get if they […]

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WONDER WHY NO ONE ASKS, “WHERE ARE THEY NOW?”

August 21, 2020 by

Who doesn’t wonder about people from different parts of life and wonder why they left, or why you left? Something happened. If it wasn’t something that required therapy or the law, an occasional ‘wonder why’ happens. And it’s okay. Yeah, I feel better, too.

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UNDERSTANDING BOOMERS IN A FEARFUL TIME

January 9, 2020 by

A brave guide for understanding boomers. To start at the beginning, baby boomers dropped into the scene after Johnny marched home from WWII. The early stages of the population wave were raised by WW II vets and lived around WWII vets.

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TIGARD TRENDING TOWARD TRAIN TRACKS

December 27, 2019 by

Not Me: I want to live near the train, the light rail train. Isn’t Tigard trending toward the train. Me: The train goes through Beaverton to Hillsboro. Not Me: I’ve heard great things about Hillsboro.

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GYM LIFER: IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE

December 20, 2019 by

Gym Lifer: You need to come with me and talk to someone. Me: Sure. Him: He’s having chest pains.

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BOOMER PARENTS: HOW KIDS LEAVE A MARK

December 19, 2019 by

A peppy forty-nine year old single man was feeling down, feeling the holiday blues. I did what boomer parents do, I butted in; it’s an auto-response. He said he lived too far away from relatives to visit family and make it all better. I could feel his sadness, so I tried to talk him back […]

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NEW BLOG QUESTION ON TWITTER, SO I ANSWERED

December 8, 2019 by

During a cruise through the twitterverse, one interesting question appeared, the question of starting a new blog. The query seemed sincere, so I responded with this: use WordPress, genesis framework, and a mobile-ready Studiopress theme, along with yoast seo. Now you’re ready to launch. It turned into a useful conversation with a writer in what […]

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