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DOG WALKING: THE LONG WAY HOME

November 8, 2025 by David Gillaspie

Dog walking is the key to longevity? Whose longevity, your’s or the dog? And how far do you need to walk? My advice?

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FEELING DOWN BUT NOT OUT?

November 6, 2025 by David Gillaspie

It’s been a minute since 2017 but I remember feeling down. I wasn’t helpless, but needed help, and got it. Since then I’ve thought of others who need help the same way. Back then it was medical treatment for me. The first day was a big one. I started by showing up.

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LOVE LETTER TO READERS AND SUBSCRIBERS

November 3, 2025 by David Gillaspie

Who remembers the first love letter you wrote? Did you send it? Either way, it’s all about the intent. You were moved to express your feelings. I don’t know about you, but I remember my first.

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BETTER BOTS FOR BOOMERPDX?

November 2, 2025 by David Gillaspie

Like every blogger out there, boomerpdx is traffic forward, which includes better bots. The more readers the better, which also includes additional exposure to online things. Like spiders. Spiders crawl websites to index them for search engines. Today is a celebration day on boomerpdx. Here’s why:

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TIME MACHINE, OR ’66 CORVETTE

October 30, 2025 by David Gillaspie

The usual time machine in movies is a box you walk into in one era and walk out of in another. It’s some kind of portal used to go back and fix something. Things go wrong when the fix starts a domino effect that changes everything else, so you have to go back for a […]

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FIRE STARTER FOR YOUR FACE: MATCHBOOKS

October 28, 2025 by David Gillaspie

If you smoke cigarettes you need a fire starter. It won’t light itself. A few decades ago, quite a few, it seemed like everyone smoked. I worked in an office in the early 80’s that allowed smoking at your desk. Some people did it with a smoke filter, others just let it rip when they […]

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YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FUTURE

October 22, 2025 by David Gillaspie

The older you get, the more young people there are. More of them are needed to help guys like this snap out of it. Our systems don’t work based on moron logic like, “We figured it out on our own and they can too.” Figured it out? Figured what out?

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ONE TRICK PONY, MAYBE TWO

October 20, 2025 by David Gillaspie

I rode this horse three times a week, sometimes more, for two months. Her name was Fancy and she let me know how important horses are. A retired Air Force sergeant owned Fancy and Roxy and he rented them on one condition: You had to ride them the way he wanted you to ride. It […]

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READING LESSON: WHO? WHAT? WHERE?

October 19, 2025 by David Gillaspie

A reading lesson is more than the title for a blog post, more than a list of books, but it’s not more than you need. If you didn’t know, now you know. I need a lesson, you need a lesson, we all need a lesson. After a writing lesson, I’m here to help. All ready? […]

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A CURATED LIFE OF MUSEUM QUALITY

October 16, 2025 by David Gillaspie

Who wouldn’t want a curated life? Curated: carefully chosen and thoughtfully organized or presented We’d get to skip all of the confusion and misunderstandings and go right to the good stuff. Sounds good to me, except for a small part. You know that small part?

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