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FEARFUL LIFE SOLUTIONS?

February 2, 2023 by David Gillaspie

A fearful life is riding a NYC subway at night in the Seventies. This is what my ride looked like. I took the train from Brooklyn, up Manhattan, and over to Queens. It seemed like scary ride at night. Why the fear?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: American Dream, city living, dance, disco, dream, family friends, fear, fearful, fearful life, New York City, NYC subway, shared goals, strangers

WORKING TOGETHER IN THE BEAVER STATE

February 1, 2023 by David Gillaspie

A call for working together won’t make you a homer, a weakling, or manager. For now, let’s say it’s a call to ‘police up’ your area, clean up your mess. Do you know about policing up your area? It’s not about giving yourself a police badge.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Army, beaver state, best friends, BOOMER, Coos Bay, cultural exchange, fort sam, high school wrestling, japan, judo, marshfield pirates, Portland, San Antonio, self storage, sharing time, soldier's story, sports, taekwondo, together, work out, working, working together, wrestling

LOVE LETTERS WRITTEN AND READ

January 13, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Who saves love letters? Better yet, who writes love letters? I’ve done both, and if you’re older than thirteen, so have you. So, where are they? Try and remember.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: college love, dating, driven women, girlfriend, good women, letters, Love, love letter, love letters, mature love, past relationship, reading, rebound relationship, serious love, walk away, writing, young adults

DISAPPOINTED WRITER? AREN’T THEY ALL

January 12, 2023 by David Gillaspie

The disappointed writer hides their feelings in their work. If it’s not their subject, it’s their characters; if it’s not the setting, it’s the theme. The disappointed writer always falls back to their comfort zone. Instead of man vs nature, or man vs society, it’s one whiney writer vs themselves.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: audience, Ben Affleck, breakthrough, disappointed, disappointed writer, disappointment, George Clooney, give up, huge memoir, ivory tower, ivy league, major work, professionally edited, Thomas Wolfe, whiney writer, wip, writer, writing habit, writing project, writing stuff, writing therapist, writing therapy

REBUILDING PORTLAND A LITTLE AT A TIME

January 9, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Rebuilding Portland means one thing: acknowledge what’s broken and fix it. What’s broken? The biggest thing broken is believing Portland is worth the effort. But how do you rebuild trust? You need to go out and find it.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: baby boomer, bill boeing, Bill Gates, blogger, boomerpdx, city planning, Jeff Bezos, Mississippi avenue, Oregon, Phil Knight, Portland, Portland Oregon, rebuild, rebuild portland, rebuilding center, rebuilding portland, Seattle, urban navigation, urban planning

UNDERDOG LIFER STARTS EARLY

January 6, 2023 by David Gillaspie

An underdog lifer life needs to start early, otherwise it’s just following trends. But how early? Top underdogs are never the first born, the first to start new things, or the first in line. If they were first, they wouldn’t be underdogs. Start with where you were raised.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: blogger, boomerpdx, Coos Bay Oregon, Dallas Cowboys, jerry jones, jimmy johnson, marshfield, North Bend Oregon, Oregon, Oregon dunes, Portland, Portland Oregon, Roger Staubach, sand dunes, Seattle, story, Super Bowl, underdog, underdog life, underdog story, underdogs

LIFE RESET? WHERE TO START

December 17, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Does a life reset sound pretty good right about now? Has your fear of missing out taken over? Before you go all in on a reset, consider this: Are you who you think you are?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: baby boomer, Baby Boomers, blogger, boomers, life reset, mental health, mid-life, mid-life crisis, Oregon, Portland, Portland Oregon, suicide, the edge

UNFINISHED BUSINESS? OK BOOMER

December 5, 2022 by David Gillaspie

What’s the first rule of ‘unfinished business?’ Set a goal. Once you reach the goal, you’re finished. Done. Stand back. Then learn to accept your work, for better or worse, etc.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: alpha males, better life, blogger, boomerpdx, business, everclear, Oregon, Portland, PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS, Portland Oregon, unfinished business, west hills, woke

PORTLAND HATERS EXPLAIN THEMSELVES

November 16, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Portland haters on twitter get to the point in roundabout ways: Real time, not the other time? That’s not a good start.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: blogger, boomerpdx, Columbia, dream girl, facebook, hate, haters, nw 23rd, Oregon, Portland, PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS, portland hate, portland haters, portland love, Portland Oregon, portland weird, REI, twitter, west hills, young professionals

SHARING BLAME FOR AIR QUALITY: YOU’RE NOT THE PROBLEM?

October 21, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Sharing blame requires a pointy finger to wag. Something happens, plans go sideways, and instead of fun you find disappointment. You could move on, but what about the unfinished business? First you need to assign blame. Get that finger ready.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: air pollution, air quality, blame, blogger, boomerpdx, boomers, clean air, EPA, flower power, forest fires, forest management, hippies, Los Angeles, Oregon, personal health, Portland, PORTLAND BABY BOOMERS, Portland Oregon, public health, science, science deniers, Seattle, sharing blame, sherwood, Tigard, travel plans, wild fires