My Generation Magazine
My Generation Magazine (ME) March 2012
I do not consider myself a musician, nor am I someone who listens to music a lot. Other than oldie goldies in the car and perhaps a little classical thrown in when I need a change, I usually listen to NPR and try to stimulate my brain... Read More
My Generation Magazine (ME) March 2012
John Lincoln Wright lived the hardcore country-and-western life. And that’s a tough way to live.
Wright’s music was nothing like the sappy crap Nashville turns out today, treacly pop music produced by carefully managed Hollywood-star... Read More
My Generation Magazine (ME) March 2012
“You either are a musician, or you want to be. If you are, then there is nothing else you can do,” said 55-year-old Betty Rines, a member of the Portland Symphony Orchestra brass section.
She has been playing the trumpet... Read More
My Generation Magazine (ME) March 2012
Protecting animals, teaching English to adults, planting gardens, helping to save endangered species or sitting quietly with hospice patients, the baby boomers in this issue of My Generation have more than their age in common.
Each... Read More
My Generation Magazine (ME) Feb 2012
Everybody in my family who’s dead has died of cancer.
In your face, heart disease.
Years ago, my doctor gave up bothering to check my cholesterol, which when last recorded looked like the kind of SAT score that gets you into an Ivy League... Read More
My Generation Magazine (ME) Feb 2012
At the risk of sounding like a braggart, I’m more than tickled that I refinanced my mortgage a few months ago. I rolled together a mortgage, second mortgage, and a balance on a home equity line of credit and cut the combined monthly payment... Read More