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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

BLOG PROPERTY: OPEN THE GATE

July 20, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Blog property, like any property, has boundaries. Once you start, then what? Keep it moving, keep it current, keep it interesting. No one wants readers who drift off thinking, ‘That’s ten wasted minutes of my life I’ll never get back.’

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Baby Boomers, blog audience, blog post, blog property, blogger, boomerpdx, boomers, climate change, disappointment, indifferent generation, inspirations, new blog, Show Business, showtime, single boomers, writer, writing

BLOG COACH STEPS UP

July 19, 2023 by David Gillaspie

The blog coach call came from a man who needed help. Why call me? Because I’ve got a track record of thirty-two hundred posts on boomerpdx. Not thirty, not thirty-two, but thirty-two hundred blog posts. I’d call me too. But there’s more, so much more.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: attention, blog, blog advice, blog coach, blog posts, blogger, blogging advice, boomerpdx, coach, deegeesbb, genesis, key word, learning, readers, SEO, story, substack, twitter, wordpress, write it, writers, yoast, yoast seo

QUIT NOW? THEN WHAT

July 12, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Quit now and forever hold your peace? Who do you say that to? And who would listen? Quitting is the easy part, it’s what comes next that’s hard to figure out.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: blogger, boomerpdx, cancer, chemo, computers, function keys, good listener, infusion clinic, listen, quit, quit now, quitting early, regret, remorse, resentment, team picture, then what, time

PREMIUMIZATION BLOG: VALUE BEYOND PRICE

July 7, 2023 by David Gillaspie

A premiumization blog way back in the 60’s? Never happened, but premiumized style was another story. This was THE style. No other accepted. I know this because . . .

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Baby Boomers, blog, blogger, boomers, collector, gentrification, hoarder, Portland Oregon, premiumizatiion blog, premiumization, premiumized style, price, value

GOOD ADVICE FROM ‘THE EXPERTS’

July 6, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Good advice comes just in time, right when you need it. First you’ve got a problem that stumps you, then you discover the solution. You read about it online or overheard a conversation in line. And you acted on that good advice that came from . . . ?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: advice, alcohol, Baby Boomers, bad advice, blogger, boomerpdx, Children, day drinking, experts, family, family problems, good advice, good blogger, husband, job, kid problems, kids, wife, wife problems, work

MAJOR COMPLAINT OR GENERAL COMPLAINT

July 5, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Major complaint: the specific reason for being here, or there, or anywhere. But why complain? If you want to be smarter, thinner, richer, happier, what’s stopping you? First, you need a plan.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: blame, blogger, boomerpdx, complain, eat less, general complaint, happier, major complaint, plan, planning, Portland Oregon, richer, smarter, thinner, Weight Loss

AMERICAN STORIES: MOVING ON TO NEW LAND

July 4, 2023 by David Gillaspie

American stories in early Oregon were about pioneers, travel, and hard work. How hard? As hard as it’s ever been clearing land by hand. But first they had to get here. And they’re still coming.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: American, American History, American stories, american story, blog, blogger, boomerpdx, current events, indigenous people, moving, nature, Oregon, Oregon future, Oregon History, Oregon Trail, Portland, Portland Oregon, stories, writing

PORTLAND BLUES SATURDAY

July 1, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Portland blues come in more shades than one. Dark blue for the homeless. Darker blue for the park bench addicts. Blue green for the tax paying homeowners just living their lives and doing the best they can. But what about the rest of us?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: blogger, blues, Eastside Esplanade, Hawthorne Bridge, music, Oregon, Portland, portland blues, Portland Oregon, PSU, Vera Katz, Waterfront Blues Festival, willamette

PORTLAND SUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

June 23, 2023 by David Gillaspie

The Portland summer is why people move to Oregon. It’s also why people move away. Why? Because it doesn’t last long enough. That wasn’t the case yesterday at Portland Center Stage.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: blogger, boomerpdx, burnside, downtown Portland, live theater, Oregon, Portland, portland center stage, Portland Oregon, portland summer, Shakespeare, west slope