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COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN, ONLINE VERSION. CHEERS

April 10, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

Communication breakdown happens when online behemoths find themselves on the wrong side of a tech case. Tech case? What else do you call instagram and YouTube but marvels of modern technology? One way or another the two of them navigated through competition and mergers and acquisitions so some kid can take an endless scroll to […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: addiction, boomer blogger, boomerpdx, brain damage, breakdown, cigarettes, Communication, communication breakdown, education, facebook, google, google AI, harm, instagram, law suit, learning, mental illness, nausea, regal, regal blog, Social media, story, supervision, tictoc, writer, writing, youtube

BUSY LIFE IN THE FAST LANE, PASSING LANE, OR . . .

March 28, 2026 by David Gillaspie Leave a Comment

A busy life means making a difference to someone, to something, to somewhere. Take your pick. Pick more than one. What you can’t pick is anyone else’s priorities for their busy life. You can try, but why?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: baby boomer, Baby Boomer blogger, beer, blogger, boomerpdx, busy group, busy life, busy people, cigarettes, do your part, dui, fast lane, good health, grandkids, health, kids, life, Love, love train, passing lane, wife, writer, writing

EMBRACING CHANGE, BUT NOT TOO TIGHT

May 18, 2025 by David Gillaspie

Embracing change is all there is to do when something new pops up. Either that or get miserable and bitter. Go with the flow or drown fighting the current. If you think this sounds like being a quitter, well . . .

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: athletes, big difference, cancer, change, cigarettes, coaches, community, difference, embracing change, fitness, fitness guys, game, hero, high school, lung cancer, money, parents, quitter, smoking, sports, teachers, team, weight lifting

POWER TOOTH FILLS THE GAP

February 8, 2024 by David Gillaspie

The power tooth, as defined on this blog, is more than a tooth. It is all your teeth, a lifetime of teeth. Is that powerful enough for you to keep up with them? More importantly, powerful enough for me, the tooth blogger?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: baby boomer, Baby Boomer blogger, big smiler, blog, blogger, BOOMER, boomer blogger, boomerpdx, cigarettes, David Gillaspie, dental, dental health, dentist, education, family, fitness, Gen alpha, gen z, health, healthy, millennial, North Bend, oral health, power tooth, smile, smoking, surgery, teeth, tooth blogger, whole tooth, writer, writers, writing

ROLE MODEL RECIPE STARTER KIT

April 20, 2023 by David Gillaspie

To start, a role model recipe needs a pinch of gray, but not some wizard looking rig with robes and a long beard. Just a pinch. Why? Nothing says “Follow Me” better than someone who looks like they’ve been somewhere. Got it? So follow me on this:

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: ball shrivel, booze, cigarettes, fitness advice, fitness role model, mothers, old guy, recipe, role model, role model recipe, self-assessment, smoker, starter kit, strong men, TED talk, testicular atropphy, the juice, turbo, yoga master, young people

TOBACCO LIES CREATE LASTING TRAUMA

November 29, 2021 by David Gillaspie

Tobacco lies are an example of an industry working to keep their customer base while killing them off at the same time. Even worse is the suspicion and doubt the industry wove into the fabric of farm life in a region dependent on tobacco. Tobacco and education are not friends. Who doesn’t see someone spark […]

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OVERSHARING, TMI, SETTING NEW BOUNDARIES FOR CHANGE

January 21, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Oversharing the wrong thing for the right reason. If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times? You might want to ask why you keep hearing the same thing. Either you haven’t changed, or the people telling you the same thing haven’t change. If the same person keeps telling you the same […]

Filed Under: BOOMER BLOGGER Tagged With: blog, blogger, cigarettes, cigars, facebook, Facebook friends, oversharing, sharing, tiparillos, tobacco

THE MISGUIDED BABY BOOMER

September 22, 2014 by David Gillaspie

Won’t Get Fooled Again? Place Your Bet. Growing up, little boomer never questioned why anyone would smoke in the house. With a carton of Red in the freezer and ashtrays on every table, what are you supposed to do? Complain? To who? Then you go to college and find smokers everywhere, just like home, except […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: American spirit, auto industry, baby boomer, better future, BOOMER, cigarettes, college, generation of change, iraq roads, male virility, road locomotives, smokers, smoking, The Who, viagra, Vietnam