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MODERN CONCRETE FOR A MODERN WORLD

September 4, 2025 by David Gillaspie

Modern concrete is the second most used resource behind water? It sounds impossible until you look around, until you drive around, walk around. Concrete buildings, concrete highways, concrete sidewalks. You can’t eat it, drink it, but we can’t live without it. We live in concrete, and if you’re in the wrong business, you might get […]

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MATERIAL WORLD, AND WHAT TO DO WITH IT

September 3, 2025 by David Gillaspie

Mashing two words together to make ‘material world’ brings up a long list of ongoing problems, some more distressing than others. Scientific American shares this story from 2020: Human-Made Stuff Now Outweighs All Life on Earth Artificial objects have gone from just 3 percent of the world’s biomass in 1900 to on par with […]

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LIFE STACK GETTING HEAVY? THEN WHAT

September 2, 2025 by David Gillaspie

I call it the life stack, all the stuff you look at every day, all the crap that just sits there. You look at it in passing. It’s not crowding you, not taking space better used for something else, but it carries reminders. Eventually you sound like someone who said, “I’ve had this hanging on […]

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MY TOGETHERNESS: HOW IT STARTED, HOW IT’S GOING

September 1, 2025 by David Gillaspie

My togetherness started in my mom’s backyard with the girl in the blue summer dress, the one she wore when I first saw her. We seemed to get along okay in NW Portland, so I took a flier and had her meet the family. Everyone was in Eugene for my granddad’s visit from Texas. My […]

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TIME TOGETHER IS NEVER ENOUGH, SO MAKE PORK BUTT PLANS

August 31, 2025 by David Gillaspie

Our time together is limited, we can all agree on that, but limited by what? Together or not, our time is always shorter than expected. We get sick and die; we have an accident and die; we do nothing and still die. So why not make plans in the meantime?

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GROWING UP AMONG TOUGH PEOPLE HELPS

August 30, 2025 by David Gillaspie

The best thing about tough people is how nice they can be. Lucky for me, I grew up near a tough town, Coos Bay. One of my North Bend classmates said he started telling people he was from Coos Bay because he got more respect. People know Coos Bay for its toughness, North Bend not […]

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THE ART AND CRAFT OF DODGING RESPONSIBILITIES

August 29, 2025 by David Gillaspie

Dodging responsibilities for a picture is not what my pal Bill Shonley and I do. He’s met a ton of people so getting a shot was no big deal. To him; it was a big deal to me. It’s one of my favorites. We’re both Blazers fans, though I’ve cooled off since Big Red took […]

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ROY PITTMAN OFF THE MAT

August 28, 2025 by David Gillaspie

I’d heard of Roy Pittman long before we met yesterday. What I’d heard about him was legendary. A legend in the community, a legend on the mat, the difference maker you’d want your kids to meet. The Peninsula Wrestling Club is where he’s been since 1970, where 200k wrestlers learned the ropes.

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INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY FADES WITH NEW TEAM

August 27, 2025 by David Gillaspie

I’m a fan of institutional memory, the part that solves nagging problems that don’t go away on their own. Unfortunately, the people who hold it can be a part of the problem. In small business, the new fixer comes in with knowledge gained in a good school, and experience from the last job they fixed, […]

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INSPIRING KIDS TO ACHIEVE? THAT’S THE JOB

August 26, 2025 by David Gillaspie

Who is inspiring kids to achieve? Who inspired you? I’ll start. It’s the parents, mom and dad, the home unit. What else would you expect from a baby boomer blogger? My parents inspired me.

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MODERN CONCRETE FOR A MODERN WORLD

MATERIAL WORLD, AND WHAT TO DO WITH IT

LIFE STACK GETTING HEAVY? THEN WHAT

MY TOGETHERNESS: HOW IT STARTED, HOW IT’S GOING

TIME TOGETHER IS NEVER ENOUGH, SO MAKE PORK BUTT PLANS

GROWING UP AMONG TOUGH PEOPLE HELPS

THE ART AND CRAFT OF DODGING RESPONSIBILITIES

ROY PITTMAN OFF THE MAT

INSTITUTIONAL MEMORY FADES WITH NEW TEAM

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