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BODILY AUTONOMY NOW AND FOREVER

July 27, 2025 by David Gillaspie

Bodily autonomy is one issue you can stand on and stomp your foot. Though don’t stomp too hard, you don’t want a strained calf or a torn achilles. We can pack it on and take it off as our mood dictates, and no one can tell us any different. However, if things seem to drift […]

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CARE MORE THAN WHAT?

May 31, 2025 by David Gillaspie

“Care more about what you can change,” is the mantra I like. There’s something on your shoe? Clean it off. Your house plant is drooping? Water it. The basics are still basics.

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GILBERT HOUSE IN SALEM: CHILDREN’S MUSEUM, ADULT PLAYTIME, OR BOTH

February 23, 2025 by David Gillaspie

The Gilbert House Children’s Museum is fun for kids, a way for them to see new things in a new context. Gather up the kids and grandkids for an afternoon of the usual? Nope, not at the Gilbert House. There’s something undeniably sweet going on there for the big kids, the adults.

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CARE ENOUGH WHEN IT MATTERS, OR . . .

October 14, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Does anyone care enough? Yes? No? Depends? Ask someone who cares about everything, all the time, with every fiber in their soul, blah, blah, blah. They care, just ask them. How can anyone care so much about so many things? What’s the secret? Please continue:

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DON’T CARE, OR CARE, THERE IS NO TRY

January 28, 2023 by David Gillaspie

If you don’t care about something, stay off the soapbox. Save your big talk for something you care about, we’ll figure out the rest. Once you’ve been around the block a few times it gets easier to care than not care. Why, you ask?

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AMERICAN DREAM — 2023: THE GOLDEN RULE

January 16, 2023 by David Gillaspie

THE American Dream remains the same: Be Somebody. Be someone you’re proud of. If you’ve been the good example bringing someone back from the edge, keep it up. If you’re the reason someone was out there, keep reading.

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GRADUATING DOGS ARE EDUCATIONAL

September 13, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Graduating dogs from obedience training is a win/win for everyone. A well mannered dog is a joy for everyone. Well mannered dog owners take that joy and run. So should you.

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VALIDATED LIFE? GET YOUR TICKET STAMPED EARLY

August 18, 2022 by David Gillaspie

A validated life, like a validated parking garage ticket, means freedom. Except the validated parking ticket is more direct. Put the card in the slot, the bar rises, you drive away. What constitutes a validated life that raises the bar to escape the couch you’ve been parked on?

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WHO CARES? YOU CAN LEARN WHO

May 6, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Who cares about others is a big mystery most of the time, but peeling back the layers shows who’s who. Leaders, the people voted to lead, are elected to care. Isn’t that the idea? When a state like Kentucky puts up winners like U.S. Senators Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul, you might wonder if there’s […]

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CARE LIMITS: WHEN IS IT TOO MUCH?

May 4, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Family caregivers have few care limits, for better or worse. The better part is that they stay on the job. The worst part: they quit. Not everyone gets it at first, but it sinks in eventually: Now what?

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