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PORTLAND COLD CASE

When A Portland Walking Tour Turns The Corner And You See Portland Cold Case. People love Portland. You’ve probably heard it before. If it’s not the cute shops it’s the funky food; the Portland Building and cast iron building span the years. Public art? Who doesn’t love driving by the eastside ramps off the Hawthorne […]

BOOMERPDX COOKS SHEPHERDS PIE

The Best Flock Food? Shepherds Pie Of Course. It’s PFM And BoomerPdx Cooks It. People who like to cook act as if it’s no big deal, but it is. Who likes to cook? Anyone tired of microwave entrees, boiled sausages, and hamburgers that come out of drive-up windows. If you have a group to cook […]

MODERN OREGON FOR EVERYONE

Move Here And You Won’t Miss Where You Came From. Oregon For Everyone. Oregon is more than Portland, much more, so much more that people who’ve lived here all their lives haven’t seen it all. There’s that much going on, too much really. Visitors have no chance of experiencing the Oregon-ness of Oregon, but they’ll […]

TOM HANKS’ SPY TRAIN

The Bridge Of Spies Waits For Tom Hanks. Who doesn’t like a nice train ride. It’s a different view than the highway and you don’t have to drive. From a highway we even stop and watch trains as they pull a long line of cars. Trains unified America with that Golden Spike. You could travel […]

ONE LOVE STORY

It Started Like Love Story, Then Everyone Said They Were Sorry. A nice man and nice lady met and became a nice couple. When they got married they were nice newly weds. They were nice parents when they had kids. A great family in the making, then things changed. One of the parents needed more, […]

A LIKE FOR OREGON

What Brings You To A State Isn’t The Same As What Keeps You There. Take Oregon and New York for example. You stay around Portland for different reasons than people stick around NYC. Size is important. For hundreds of miles around Manhattan people won’t leave, never think of leaving, because of the island. “Oh, we […]

BABY BOOMER YOUTH GAMES

Could Kids Today Benefit From The Game Of Stretch Or Mumbly Peg? If Millennials and the rest of us want to meet on level ground, we must learn to share our games. A game on television is the easy part. Click a station, then another, until you find a game you both want to watch. […]

YOUR POLITICAL DEBATE RIGHT HERE

Baby Boomers Saw The First Televised Political Debate With Nixon And Kennedy. The first televised political debate pitted seasoned pro Vice President Nixon against the young newcomer Senator John Kennedy. The young charger was four years younger than Nixon. They squared up for the biggest political prize in the land, leader of the free world. […]

THE FIGHT FOR LOVE?

Not All Relationships Start In The Sunshine When You Fight For Love. What happens in the dark eventually determines how things work out in the long run. Be sure that’s what you want. 1. The guy dates a lot of women. He’s in his late twenties and still dates high school girls. He went to […]

GRANDMOTHER GUNS IN PORTLAND

A True Story About Grandmother Guns In Portland Oregon. An elderly lady pulled her car into her NE Portland garage on a hot day. I was there to pick up a museum donation, three quilts for the Oregon Historical Society. Museums love fragile textiles, product packaging, anything you’d throw away a hundred years ago. Quilts […]