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AR15 PURCHASE QUESTIONS THAT NEED ASKING

April 9, 2018 by David Gillaspie

The Washington Post ran an nice piece about a guy buying his first AR15. He’d wanted one for years and finally the day came. Money, motivation, and gun show all came together for him. The WaPo research seems pretty good, even with a tag of fake news thrown around. The […]

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GUN TALK THE WRONG WAY … AGAIN

March 14, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Raw Story posted a gun column about white men and guns. It was the sort of gun talk white men with guns shouldn’t identify with. “White men stockpile guns because they’re scared of black people and feel inadequate, science says.” That’s the rawstory title. It’s raw, but even more, it’s lazy, but a site called […]

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Two Shades Of Boomer Travel

March 13, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Even when you go someplace you’ve never been, you’ll find shades of familiar. It takes a special place, one filled with its own internal music, to make everything old feel new again. The band in my brain cranked up in Barcelona, Spain when I saw the Gaudi church, La Sagrada Família. […]

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FACEBOOK WINGS ON AMERICAN AIRLINES

January 18, 2018 by David Gillaspie

I stood across the concourse, the airport hallway, from my check in studying my boarding pass with Group Nine printed on the bottom right side. Group Nine is last to board, last to sit, and last to find an overhead bin for the carry-on. Luckily my wife and I were flying […]

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MEXICO TRAVEL: PUERTO VALLARTA PERFECTION, pt1

January 12, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Where the heck is Puerto Vallarta? Find a good map book. Look about two thousand miles south of Portland and you’re close. West coast of Mexico below the Gulf of California.

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SHOW UP LATE? APOLOGIZE AND PROMISE TO JUMP

January 5, 2018 by David Gillaspie

I’m sorry I’m late.

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CANCER TREATMENT: 5 THINGS I KNEW BEFORE STARTING

December 21, 2017 by David Gillaspie

I will submit to the cancer treatment sequence of events that may or may not do what is predicted. Like a lamb to slaughter, I would submit to whatever it took to kill the shit out of hpv16 throat cancer. In the writing world we all dream of that one ‘YES’ that […]

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AMERICAN EDUCATION STARTS WITH THE FIRST WORD

December 15, 2017 by David Gillaspie

American education teaches and American education does some learning too, as in we learn how to teach. Isn’t that the happy ending education promises? Learn how to treat others as you would have them treat you. Why does that sound so biblical? This is where the separation does neither American public […]

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PORTLAND TIME, OREGON LINES: TIME TRAVEL IF YOU NEVER LEAVE

December 13, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Portland time changed from 1804 to 1904. Again from 1904 to 2004. To round things up, today is in the year 2017. From Lewis and Clark in 1804 to the Lewis and Clark Expo in 1904, give or take, to Big Pink, the changes show. On a calendar it measures here to […]

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literary swag? BOOK PICTURES WORTH ONE THOUSAND WORDS? #literaryswag

December 9, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Selfies with a book? Had me at selfie. Then book. Literary swag? Not so much, but it sounds like it could be big, like the cover of the New Yorker showing a reader with a book lit by their smart phone. Nerd cartoon perfection. But what do readers really need? […]

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