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SOCIAL COMPETITION: WHERE’S THE SCOREBOARD?

June 26, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Social competition follows a different set of rules than sports. Sports take preparation and executing a plan. Then there’s the scoreboard. It explains the difference between winners and losers with few questions.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: competition, good sport, losers, scoreboard, social competition, Social media, sports, sportsmanship, winners

TIME TRAVEL WITH BULLIES BEING BULLIES

June 25, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Time travel with me back fifty years. Here’s why: Fifty years ago I was a seventeen year old student following the stream from Miss Spooner’s kindergarten classes at Roosevelt to graduating on the football field where my sports heroes played. It was a good run.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: aids crisis, bullies, bully, Divorce, freedom, health, momma, Oregon, personal freedom, Portland, PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS, Portland Oregon, reproductive health, reproductive rights, roe v wade, sex, Texas, time travel, travel, widow, women, women's health, women's right to choose, womens rights

THIRD ACT LIFE: THIS IS WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND

June 24, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Life’s third act is different than the end of a drama. In a play, everyone goes home. In life the end is death, which sounds overly dramatic. One question: Is it better to go quietly and leave the mess and problems unsolved? Problem solvers say, “Heck no.”

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: abortion law, Communication, consequences, effective communication, freedom, obgyn, obstetrician-gynecologist, problem solvers, reproductive rights, roe v wade, soul search, Supreme Court, third act, women's health

TEN HAMMERS? THINGS IN THE HOUSE WHEN ONE IS ENOUGH

June 23, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Ten hammers ought to be enough? Who has ten hammers? Me. And they’re all looking for a nail.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Baby Boomers, blogger, boomers, hoarder, hoarders, hoarding, hoarding disorder, Oregon, pillows, stress, tape measures, tea towels, ten hammers, tools, trauma, twitter

TRAUMA WORK: WHEN ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

June 22, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Professionals, trained professionals, do trauma work. They do the work with traumatized people. The work starts when someone thinks they need help, or they’re told they need help. It sounds like this: “You need help, so get help.” Sounds simple enough?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: actuary, Aubrey Hirsch, get help, gun control, gun crime, gun violence, guns, memorial, Oregon, Portland Oregon, PTSD, substack, trauma, trauma work, traumatized people

FUTURE CONSEQUENCES BASED ON CURRENT DECISIONS

June 21, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Future consequences were on my mind at the corner store. “What are the chances of anything bad happening?” I said at checkout. “I can think of one,” the cashier said. Whether you admit it or not, there are always consequences, planned and unplanned. For example:

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Baby Boomers, boomerpdx, consequences, decisions, future consequences, kids, life, married, Oregon, Portland Oregon, self discovery

LAST CONVERSATION UNTIL NEXT YEAR

June 20, 2022 by David Gillaspie

One last conversation before Father’s Day, 2023. If you have adult kids, it helps to talk to them. Based on the inspiration from one of my favorite twitter follows, it’s important. Do your kids know you better than you know your own parents?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: adult kids, boomerpdx, chicken dinner, conversation, education, family, fathers day, information, inspiration, knowledge, last conversation, Love, parents

FATHERHOOD QUESTIONS ANSWERED: WHO’S YOUR DADDY

June 19, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Fatherhood questions come up all the time. But they change for dads as they age. If you heard them early they sounded one way; but if you heard them later?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Baby Boomers, birth control, boomerpdx, Dad, father's day, fatherhood, fatherhood question, fatherhood questions, good dad, Portland Oregon

OREGON COAST LIFE LESSON REVIEW

June 18, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Does the Oregon coast offer a different experience than other coastlines? That’s the question. The big answer is, “The Oregon coast will kill you as dead as any other coast.” So stay out of the water? Come on, it’s the beach.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: aging, baby boomer, BOOMER, Cannon Beach, decent beer, MARRIAGE, married people, Oregon, Oregon Coast

SCRIPT WRITING: KNOW WHEN TO END, Part 3

June 17, 2022 by David Gillaspie

A script writing master class produced an original piece of work that’s still in progress. I took the class after buying and reading books about script writing and beating the odds in Hollywood. Part 3 follows Part 2.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Army, B-25, B-29, boomerpdx, drama, Hollywood, Los Angeles, retiring, screen writer, screenplay, script writer, script writing, tinian, USS Hornet, writer, writing, WWII

TIME TRAVEL WITH BULLIES BEING BULLIES

THIRD ACT LIFE: THIS IS WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND

TEN HAMMERS? THINGS IN THE HOUSE WHEN ONE IS ENOUGH

TRAUMA WORK: WHEN ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

FUTURE CONSEQUENCES BASED ON CURRENT DECISIONS

LAST CONVERSATION UNTIL NEXT YEAR

FATHERHOOD QUESTIONS ANSWERED: WHO’S YOUR DADDY

OREGON COAST LIFE LESSON REVIEW

SCRIPT WRITING: KNOW WHEN TO END, Part 3

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