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WORRIED WEATHERMAN BLUES

July 27, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Worried weatherman? That’s what you get at the top end and the bottom end. It’s either hotter than a firecracker or colder than an ice cube. So everyone else can just relax, right?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: blogger, boomerpdx, climate, climate change, Death, extreme weather, phoenix, weather, weatherman, worried man, worried weatherman

ROAD TRIPS WITH THE BOYS, PART ONE

July 25, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Road trips with kids sounds like a duty, a hassle, a task to do and be done with. It starts with a plan, then a phone call. How you answer gives the kids an idea on how to respond when their turn comes around: “Dad, can we borrow your car and drive to a concert […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: acid trip, blogger, boomerpdx, college kids, drugs, Grateful Dead, Ken Kesey, millennials, music, road trip, road trips, the gorge, travel

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

GET LIT, BUT NOT TOO LIT

July 23, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Get lit, getting lit, lighting the fuse? They all shift things around, sometimes more than planned. In one case you’re in for an internal reaction; in another it’s external. Both come with their own problems, and you might be one of them.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: alcohol, Baby Boomers, beer, Big Pharma, Big tobacco, blogger, bong, boomerpdx, boomers, climate change, drink, get lit, Harvard medical school, health, health conscious, hippies, masculinity, planetary instability, smoke, toxic, toxic waste, weed, youthful idealism

HIGH TEMPERATURE TUNED IN, NOW TURN IT DOWN

July 22, 2023 by David Gillaspie

High temperature during a heat wave is no one’s idea of a good time. Who says, “It’s not hot enough,” during a heat wave? You’ve heard it before: “It’s hot, yes, but not that hot.” Who says that?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Arizona, blogger, bloggers, boomerpdx, climate, climate change, climate reality, climate test, global warming, heat wave, high temperature, hot day, Oregon, salesman, scare tactic, Southwest Oregon

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

READING BOOKS IS A PROBLEM?

July 17, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Why is reading books a problem? Because people read the wrong books. But what’s the difference between the right book and the wrong book? Jimmy knows, so let’s ask Jimmy:

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: banned books, book people, books, boomerpdx, Costco, educational, educational platform, Expert, first page, Hemingway, ken burns, reading, reading books, reading style, right book, slow reading, so what, writers, writing, wrong books

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

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