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FIXING BLOG THINGS AND COMPLAINING AT THE SAME TIME

Fixing blog things is part of joining the blogger world circus. I update boomerpdx and lose my subscribers? Twitter takes a dump and I lose my blog traffic? Facebook is unreliable? These are examples of fixing things online AND complaining. Waaaa. But, first . . .

MODERN ELDER SHINES A LIGHT

The modern elder moves the life needle from aging to ageless. Experience makes the difference. They are flesh and blood resources doing what reference books have done to navigate an uncertain future. By the way, an uncertain future is what we all have in store. What is the best approach?

MASCULINITY DISPLAYED: WHO IS OLD ENOUGH FOR OLD SCHOOL SPORTS

I heard masculinity displayed on sports talk radio. It wasn’t the same version shared by Kareem and Coach Wooden. (Do you know their story?) Jason Whitlock recently explained how the Michael Jordan documentary The Last Dance appealed to him: Jordan was just an old school, manly, sort of guy doing old school and manly things. […]

OLD SCHOOL LANDMINE LEADERSHIP

With lives at stake, landmine leadership matters. Detecting landmines in the Korean War needed men who paid attention during training. Those were the guys who stepped into the minefield first, the people with landmine leadership. If they did the job they were trained for others could walk through the same area without blowing themselves up. […]

Boomer History 101

If Your Boomer Man Seems Confused, Here’s Why: It starts with ‘Old School’ and how do you define it. Yes, it’s the title of a Will Farrell movie, but move along. Old School in 2013 could mean the 1980′s, bumped to the 1990′s for twenty-somethings. It works for shorter attention spans, but not longer. Wiki […]