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FRAGILE MEN CLUB? YOU’RE ALREADY SIGNED UP

April 24, 2024 by Leave a Comment

Fragile men had no place in Western American history stories about the savage frontier and cruel hardships. Nor in the early industrialization with mighty oil, steel, and railroad barons casting their deepening shadows across the land. Writers found other virtues to extoll other than common frailties. The western frontier needed stories of valor and sacrifice […]

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ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL IS SUPPLY CHAIN MAGIC

September 7, 2021 by

A brick sounds simple. It’s just a brick like the one above, below, and on each side. Most of the time it’s not important, that brick, and it just does it’s work quietly. The work part makes it an icon. That brick didn’t fall out of the sky and get picked up by some wayward […]

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HOPEFUL HISTORY THE OREGON WAY

September 14, 2020 by

Opening a book to find hopeful history is pure folly. It’s not history if all the good and bad parts get the whitewash treatment. Too often Oregon history is a mashup of wagon trains and farmers, of noble people of the land, salt of the earth, staking out new ground on behalf of their godly […]

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PORTLAND OREGON BLOG MESSAGE TO YOUR WORLD

May 24, 2017 by

Who reads posts and comments on a Portland Oregon blog? The weird thing about writing online is the reach. From literally around the world, readers find blogs like boomerpdx. They come in on a variety of devices, operating systems, and browsers. It’s amazing how anyone finds anything in their own house, but finding a blog […]

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