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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

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

TALKING BACK? DON’T BACKTALK ME SON

July 14, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Talking back is a right and a privilege, but it comes with a caveat: It may not be as appreciated as you’d hope. The great Randy Johnson said it well with: “I don’t care who you are, don’t get in my face!” the 6-10 Johnson snapped at one point as they brushed past the cameraman. […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: accusation, advice, Baby Boomers, backtalk, balance, base, basketball, blame, boomers, Communication, Expert, finger pointing, football, good company, Portland Oregon, posture, respect, rude, shit talk, sports, sportsmanship, talking back

CLEAN UP ON AISLE U

July 11, 2023 by David Gillaspie

The clean up work never ends if you look hard enough. But what if you never look? We’ll get to that. First take a look around right now.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: baby boomer, Baby Boomers, boomers, clean, clean up, goodwill, grateful, hoarders, junk, kitchen, mess, millennials, organize, plan, treasure

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

LIFE GOALS: BOOMERS FROM 58 TO 68

June 12, 2023 by David Gillaspie

My life goals are simple. Like Marcus Aurelius, I believe the object of life is very clear: Stay off the lunatic fringe. And?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: beer, boomers, Divorce, elite singles, family, gen x, goals, good man, gray divorce, kids, life goals, Marcus Aurelius, married, millennials, mortality, Oregon, our time, oxy, Portland, sex, silver singles, viagra, weed, wife

ROSE FESTIVAL DONE RIGHT IN PORTLAND? RAMBLE ON

June 11, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Rose Festival week for Portland Oregon baby boomers when we were single? It was good, real good. We didn’t have cars back then and it didn’t matter since we lived so close to the parade route through Portland. Yesterday was a throwback to those days of old in New Portland. What’s the biggest difference between […]

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BOOMER MEDICINE: THEY GET WHAT THEY DESERVE?

June 4, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Boomer medicine comes in the same variety as everyone else’s: What works. And what doesn’t work. But for boomers there’s an extra additive.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: accountable, adult children, BOOMER, boomer medicine, boomers, Coos Bay, covid, dead, Death, goals, hometown, icu, medicine, mistakes, moving forward, North Bend, Portland, reader, responsible, rivalries, tactical advice

FIXING PROBLEMS? START AT THE BOTTOM

June 3, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Fixing problems begin with a strong identification. For example, the car rides lumpy and low in the back right? You may have a flat tire. That’s a problem that needs fixing.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: adventure, baby boomer, Baby Boomers, BOOMER, boomers, dear reader, fixing problems, friend, ga, gamer, help, kids, logic, married, mountain, mt.st.helens, Portland, problem solving, quit, quitter, reader, STFU, travel, volcano, wife