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OREGON SPORTS AWARDS FOR PARENTS

June 11, 2015 by David Gillaspie

Athletes Strive For Success, Oregon Sports Awards Serve Notice. Who remembers their first sports achievement? Was it learning to swim? Catching a ball? Running faster than a brother or sister? Whatever your memory is you don’t remember your first athletic move, but your mom and dad does. Maybe it was the first time you raised […]

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GROWING UP AND STAYING SHARP

November 19, 2024 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

Growing up is a decision. It’s a decision to be on time, show up ready to go, and inspire others by your example. Like writing a blog, lol. The biggest decision to make? Decide to stay sharp, in spite of having sons.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: college football, decision, family, fathers, fresh memories, growing up, inspire others, internet information, looking back, memories, men, misinformation, multiple kids, multiple women, Oregon, Oregon Ducks, reddit, reliable source, sharp, sons, stay sharp, staying sharp, television

NORTHWEST PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 12, 2024

November 13, 2024 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

My Northwest Portland stroll started on Burnside and 23rd. This is the view looking across Burnside: The Envoy. I met a guy who lived there. He said it was great. That’s good enough for me.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: apartment, arborist, burnside, free spirit, henpecked husband, neighborhood, northwest portland, nw 23rd, Oregon, Portland, share memories, suburbs, tree, trees, vista avenue, west hills

ON VETERANS DAY 2024

November 11, 2024 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

Veterans Day is for the old folks who remember their youth and those who were young with them. They remember the young people who didn’t have the chance to get old. My Dad got a chance to get old. He out-lived his Dad, just like I’m out-living him.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Army, college, conflict, education, enlistment, france, germany, italy, Korean War, Marine Corps, Navy, Oregon, Portland, Portland Oregon, service, Ukraine, Veterans Day, Vietnam War, WWII

NEW IDEA? TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT

November 9, 2024 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

A new idea is not something to fear. You might hear something different, but not too different? Then give it a try.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: activities, aging, boomers, different, disc golf, excuses, exercise, fear, golf, lazy, nature, nature walk, new idea, old, outdoors, pickleball, special age, SPORT, sports, time, tired, too busy, try something, try something different, uninspired, younger people

GOOD TIMES GOING FORWARD

November 7, 2024 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

The good times ahead aren’t for everybody. They may not be for the people who voted for the good timing man. Getting on toward seventy this year, I expect to hear all about it. What’s it going to sound like going forward? You’ve heard it before:

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KNOW BETTER? BETTER THAN WHAT? TO VOTE

November 4, 2024 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

Adults have it over kids when they say, “You ought to know better,” when something goes wrong. Older people have seen plenty go wrong, have done plenty of things wrong. Did they have someone explain what they ought to know? Or did they have the grace of being stupid by themselves without the feedback? Well, […]

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ANGRY OLD MAN CHEWED ME OUT

October 31, 2024 by David Gillaspie 2 Comments

An angry old man is a dangerous man . . . to himself. Wind some guy up and they’ll do things they don’t ordinarily do. Why? Because they’re mad, they’re not happy, they are fuming. Most of the time they get over it unless someone lights their fuse.

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DAMAGED MEN DON’T ASK FOR BAND-AIDS?

October 28, 2024 by David Gillaspie 2 Comments

Damaged men are all around, but you’d never know it. Why? Not because they tell you, because they don’t. In a show and tell world, they do the show part better than the tell part.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: America, broken arm, damaged, damaged man, damaged men, election, fitness, general kelly, glass houses, harm's way, hate blog, health, hip replacement, interior landscape, life choices, master's degree, men, pinball, president, public crying, scar, second born, shit talk, show and tell, Social media, United States, vote

NEXT YEAR, MAYBE THE YEAR AFTER

October 12, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Next year shows up fast, so fast that you haven’t gotten over anything from the last year. Suddenly you’re stacking the new ‘get over it’ on top of the old ‘get over it.’ You used to care about getting over things. What happened? This happened:

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