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TO BE INTERESTING BE INTERESTED

October 18, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

It can’t be just in my individual baby boomer blogger brain, but these guys are famous in every form you see them, hear them, feel them. I was driving around town, passed through a parking lot, and there they were on the wall looking like an Andy Warhol fever dream. Were they trying to be […]

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COUNTING YEARS, ADDING TIME

October 17, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

Counting years, birthdays, anniversaries, is easy math even for non-math people. One day you’re logging miles and running races and getting a new t-shirt. The world is fresh and waiting for what you have to offer so show up and do your best. Then the race changes, but the task is the same: show up […]

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WIFE WALKING FOR HEALTH AND FITNESS

October 14, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

I see couples walking, wife walking, the woman in front, the man a few steps back. You can tell it’s wife walking when the woman goes into a shop and the man finds a seat outside and stares at his phone. My wife and I walked past two places that looked interesting, though not to […]

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BRAVE BLOGGER? HOW BRAVE

October 13, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

It’s hard to explain bravery, as in a brave blogger, to a little girl when you scream like a little girl at the same things they scream about. Mouse? EEEEEK. Rat? EEEEEEEEK. Spider? Run for it. It started out so normal.

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CASUAL BIRD WATCHING WITH BABY DUCK

October 11, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

Casual bird watching is just a short drive away to the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge. You never know what you’ll see, like this Egret. A special egret. Why special? It has friends. An egret and a blue heron together?

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FISHING FAILURE = TRY AGAIN

October 10, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

What makes for a fishing failure? Bad weather, wrong bait, no bites. If that happens too many times, what do you do? You want some salmon, you live in Oregon, it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.

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FAILING FUN = TRY AGAIN

October 9, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

No one sets a course for failing fun. But who’s kidding who. Those who never fail haven’t tried hard enough. But if you keep track of such things, failing fun happens every day. Is it really fun, though?

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FAILED MOVIES FIND FACEBOOK LIFE

October 7, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

How many times on a Facebook scroll do you find posts on failed movies, usually movies I haven’t seen to know if they failed, or how they failed, with a caption like: “Ignored and pulled from screens just after release has aged like fine wine.” Or, “while considered a failure on it’s first release it […]

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SAM QUINONES ON IMPORTANT WRITING

October 5, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

What’s better than a writer hyping important writing, the importance of writing, and at the same time telling us about their favorite writing book from a dead writer? If that’s not writing advice, I don’t know what is. Good writing advice is hard to come by. Will it make you a better writer, you ask? […]

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PORTLAND NARRATION WITH MEL BROWN AT THE JACK LONDON

October 3, 2026 by David Gillaspie

Yesterday I wrote a post about two ladies walking around Portland like they knew where they were going. They did know where they were going, but there was a hitch. They weren’t alone. The Heart of Portland followed along.

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