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BREAKING STRIDE, LOSING MOMENTUM, PICKING IT UP

September 13, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Breaking stride matters when you’re the lead horse in a harness race. Do that and you’re disqualified. What happens when you breakdown in your regular day to day life? Who notices that? You. Or you should, since everyone else does.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: aging, big job, breakdown, breaking stride, cancer, cancer treatment, chemo, do good stuff, freak, good freak, live alone, losing momentum, old people, radiation, recover, recovery, remember, remembered, virtues, your mission

ROCKY RELATIONSHIP WITH WRITING?

September 11, 2024 by David Gillaspie

My rocky relationship with writing took a turn yesterday. It happens, but this one was avoidable. Boomerpdx was offline for ten hours. The longest ten hours of my . . . not my life. I just did other writer things. What writer things?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Baby Boomer blogger, blog, blogger, Bluehost, BOOMER, boomerpdx, broken blog, cancer, domain name, education, expository writing, fitness, Love, memoir, offline, relationship, rocky relationship, story, writer, writer things, writing

SHAPE UP. THEN WHAT?

September 4, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Shape up. I’ve told myself that more than once. I’ve also looked at others and said the same thing. To myself. Most of the time.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Arnold Schwarzenegger, blogger, bloggers, body building, Charles Atlas, conditioning, culture, Dave draper, exercise, facebook, Facebook update, family, fitness, fitness blogger, fitness writer, football, granddad, heroes, muscle, older brother, sports, stronger, the future, UPDATE, wife, workout, workout culture, workouts, wrestling, writer, writers

BACKING UP AND ADDING ON

August 26, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Backing up into a parking space is normal? It’s getting that way, but there’re still holdouts. – People who always back into to parking spaces think they better than us. – I back into my parking space in the garage and the garage is inclined up…I also do it with a manual transmission car, […]

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GRACEFUL LIFE WITH ELEGANCE AND POISE

August 23, 2024 by David Gillaspie

A graceful life begins with good health and proper hydration. The good health part is keeping mechanically sound enough to do hard things now and then. For proper hydration for doing those hard things, drink water in between this dandy beer. ($12.00 in the store, $3 for a six pack at Rogue’s Garage Sale. I’ll […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: athlete, balance, democratic national convention, elegance, grace, graceful, kamala harris, kamala harris for the people, poise, political, slack line, SPORT, strength, trump

NO FEAR, OR LOTS OF PRACTICE

August 21, 2024 by David Gillaspie

No fear is a brand and lifestyle. As for the lifestyle, it’s a lie. Who’s not afraid? Everybody’s afraid, but some are more up to the challenge than others.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: afraid, candidates, Churchill, courage, decisions, elections, fear, fearful, government, hope, Justin herbert, muscle memory, music, musical, musician, Oregon, practice, Roosevelt, skill, stalin, truman

BIG CROWDS OF A LIFETIME

August 11, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Big crowds signal over population? Not when it’s an Olympic crowd in Paris. Did I feel like part of the crowd watching on TV? Yes, I did, and it felt close enough.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: agony of defeat, big crowd, big crowds, champion, crowd, crowds, defeat, deploy, deployment, football teams, good crowd, great run, happiness, joy, lives together, North Bend Bulldogs, Olympic moment, Paris olympics, purposeful life, sports, sports crowd, sports fan, sports travelers, team sports, thrill of victory, too much, USA USA USA, victory, warm up, wrestling teams

DOING MORE? MORE WHAT?

August 9, 2024 by David Gillaspie

‘Doing more’ is the vibe hanging over me, maybe you too. ‘Make your time count.’ ‘Give your all.’ ‘Don’t waste your energy.’

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: advocate, blogger, boomers, do more, doing great, history, husband, MARRIAGE, more, more what, normal day, old men, old timers, travel, wife, writer

CUTTING WEIGHT FOR BETTER OR WORSE

August 8, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Cutting weight is a fact of life in a sport like wrestling. A woman missed her weight in the Paris Olympics. She is the latest in a long line of surprises at the weigh in. The big surprise for me is that she didn’t forfeit the finals match and get the silver medal.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: body shaming, body weight, cancer, cheating, cutting weight, dehydration, drastic habit, feeding tube, make weight, making weight, my body, neck cancer, Paris olympics, self-inflicted, sore loser, starvation, weigh in, weight, Weight Loss

WOMEN’S HEALTHCARE, A PORTLAND STORY

August 1, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Women’s healthcare is just another story if you’re not a woman, don’t know any women, if there are no women in your life? Does that sum things up for you, or does it sound far fetched? Everybody has women in their lives at some point. Just ask your mom, your grandma, your sister, your wife, […]

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