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RECOVERY ROAD POT HOLES AND HUMPS

December 5, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Recovery road is paved with promise and hope. Most of all, it’s paved with compasses to stay on track. Whether recovery involves substance or emotions, staying on track is vital. How does that work?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: blog, blogger, boomerpdx, cancer, cancer treatment, covid, David Gillaspie, emotional abuse, emotional recovery, husband, life path, national trauma, pathology, recovery, recovery people, recovery road, reward, substance abuse, substance recovery, trauma, wife, writer, writers, writing

JUPITER HOTEL ON PORTLAND’S EAST SIDE: THE NEXT LEVEL

September 17, 2023 by David Gillaspie

The Jupiter Hotel on Saturday felt like travel. A time before the meth epidemic, the opioid epidemic, the covid epidemic, the homeless epidemic, and every other epidemic. Why? Because of the fun sense of humor. “Make mine a fir burger?” I’m still laughing.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: BOOMER, culture, east side, hotel, jupiter hotel, JUPITER NEXT, Old Boomer, Oregon, Portland, Portland Oregon

PERSUASIVE POWER OF WORDS NOT SPOKEN

August 13, 2023 by David Gillaspie

My persuasive power, if any, comes with words attached. It comes with observation that hopefully morphs into helpful insights. Or, when I swing and miss it’s just another load of ‘look at me’ like my blogging brethren. Let’s take a look together, shall we?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: aggression, bar buddy, blogger, blogging brethren, cancer, chatty, dog, dog park, fear, hard seltzer, man talk, PERSUASIVE POWER, tears, ultimatum, words

REINVENTING FRIENDSHIP: MIDLIFE GUYS

July 24, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Try reinventing friendship when your main guys move away. It happens, and it will happen more than once. You might move away, they might move away, then what? How do you break in new friends?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Baby Boomers, blogger, boomerpdx, boomers, contemporary blogger, friends, friendship, guitars, male bonding, male friendship, midlife, musician, new friends, reinventing friendship, Social media

INTERCONNECTION BLOGGER FOR CLIMATE DUBIOUS

July 21, 2023 by David Gillaspie

We need an interconnection blogger to sell climate change to the disbelievers. The scientists aren’t getting it done. Celebrities are trying but coming up short. Where is that blogger to tie it all together?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: blogger, california, clean solar, climate change, climate denier, climate dubious, coal power, covid, dirty energy, energy transmission, interconnection blogger, lung cancer, midwest, Oregon, pollution, reading, renewable energy, wind energy

BOOMER MEDICINE: THEY GET WHAT THEY DESERVE?

June 4, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Boomer medicine comes in the same variety as everyone else’s: What works. And what doesn’t work. But for boomers there’s an extra additive.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: accountable, adult children, BOOMER, boomer medicine, boomers, Coos Bay, covid, dead, Death, goals, hometown, icu, medicine, mistakes, moving forward, North Bend, Portland, reader, responsible, rivalries, tactical advice

PAIN MANAGEMENT? IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU

May 2, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Pain management are more than two words, two random words. It’s a lifestyle, an affliction, and a path to addiction. If it is you in pain, then that’s a major part of your day. Every. Day. But what if it’s not you? Let’s start with you, but first me.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: baby boomer, Baby Boomers, blogger, boomerpdx, cancer, covid pandemic, opioids, pain, pain management, personal power, PTSD, purpose

CONTRACTOR SERVICES REINVENTED

April 27, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Contractor services come in as many varieties as a project demands. Also, contractors in the same trades come in as many varieties, too. There’s no cookie cutter that makes everyone equal. The best you can hope for is finding someone with a good track record on starting and finishing their work on time and on […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: contractor services, contractor services reinvented, contractors, investment property, property owner, real estate, trades

MID-CENTURY MODERN REMODEL LOVE STORY

April 3, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Mid-century modern has a nice ring. Whether a chair, a table, or a house, there’s a built in appeal to the name. Mid-century people are called baby boomers, but you knew that. And there’s little that gets between a boomer and their stuff.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: baby boomer, Baby Boomers, blogger, boomerlandia, boomerpdx, contractors, hoarding, house remodel, Love, love story, mid-century, mid-century modern, modern, Portland, Portland Oregon, ranch house, remodel, remodel mistakes, Renaissance Man

FERAL WILDLIFE ON LAND AND SEA

March 16, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Feral wildlife has not run amok. Just ask Surf Chicken. It’s his beach, his island. Not yours.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: animals, chickens, feral wildlife, fish, Hawaii, kauai, land and sea, ticket updates, travel, travel plans, wildlife