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HPV16 VACCINE IN CONSUMER REPORTS

August 19, 2017 by David Gillaspie

The HPV16 vaccine article in Consumer Reports pushes hot buttons across the board. It’s easy to understand why. I’m a father of two, but it’s more than that. Too many parents are overwhelmed with the joy of their own reproductive skills and the bundle of joy as a result. I know I was. […]

Filed Under: Toughen Up Tagged With: cancer, cancer treatment, chemo, consumer reports, Death, death spiral, depression, fake news, hpv, hpv16, hpv16 cancer, hpv16 neck cancer, hpv16 vaccine, medical conspiracy, p16, p16 throat cancer, p16cancer, radiation, vaccination

PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS, pt2: FAMILY TRAUMA

May 5, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Illness defines family trauma over time and it’s exhausting. Remember the movie Ordinary People? The family dynamic wasn’t defined by illness, but death of a child. It didn’t go well for the emotional state of all. There’s was a sudden adjustment with a lifetime effect. Living with a pre-existing condition, or around others with pre-existing […]

Filed Under: Toughen Up Tagged With: aca, AHCA, Christian, D-Day, Death, emotions, family, family emotion, illness, LDS church, lifetime, mercy, mo brooks, Mormon, Normandy, obamacare, Patient protection, pre-existing condition, pre-existing conditions, WWII

PORTLAND WRITER NIGHT, @WILWRITE, ON WRITER RADIO

May 3, 2017 by David Gillaspie

On Portland Writer Night everyone’s a writer To express feelings, first you’ve got to find them. That’s what writers do. Feelings about a nice day, delicious food, good company, and a warm bed? Not so much. Too easy. The veneer of the shared moment turns to smugness on definitions. Instead, find the feels for loss […]

Filed Under: Who's Up Tagged With: cancer, dark feelings, Death, deep feelings, feelings, heart disease, mental illness, old church, Portland, portland writer, portland writer night, richard ford, suzy vitello, WILLAMETTE WRITERS, wilwrite, writer feelings

SUBURBAN DAD DEATH: THE TIMES, THE TOWNS, THE TEAMS

April 11, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Explaining suburban dad death to suburban kids Get married, have kids, and if they’re athletes you’ll see every town within thirty miles. The Canby Cougar will bite you. Get ready to be mauled by a Tualatin Timberwolf. Run from the Newberg Tiger. Every town’s mascot sounds fierce until suburban dad death shows up. Then you […]

Filed Under: Who's Up Tagged With: Death, family, killer, millennial kids, murderer, professional man, search party, searchers, skilled murderer, spiritual journey, suburban, suburban dad, suburban dad death

CIGARETTE SMOKE ‘EM IF YOU GOT ‘EM? DON’T DO IT

March 31, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Tobacco and cigarette smoke, the stuff of dreams and nightmares. The dream part comes first. Light a stick and enjoy. All you’ve got to do is breath in, breath out, and watch the cigarette smoke curl into shapes. Later comes the nightmare part, the regret, the tubes, the hospital smell, the faces […]

Filed Under: Toughen Up Tagged With: cancer, chemoradiation, chemotherapy, cigarette, cigarette smoke, Death, dying, erectile dysfunction, feeding tube, heart attack, hospital, learned advice, middle aged, middle aged men, millennial, millennials, pack year, pro athletes, radiotherapy, sex, throat cancer, tobacco

WRITE YOUR STORY SOONER THAN LATER

February 14, 2017 by David Gillaspie

You can handle your frightening truth, so write your story. Writers inspired by Inspirational Writers lean toward inspirational writing? It seems natural. Buying Gabriele Lusser Rico’s Writing the Natural Way felt just as natural. Who doesn’t need ‘A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Writing Confidence.’ I know I do. I feel more creative […]

Filed Under: BOOMER BLOGGER Tagged With: Death, film rights, frightening truths, inspiration, inspirational writers, jack and jill, life, readers, right-brain, story, writers, your story

THE CARE AGE SANDWICH GENERATION

August 4, 2016 by David Gillaspie

If elderly people depend on you, you’re in the Care Age. Ages come in different names defined by the dominant materials like the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age. Epochs and eras all have names. If you find artifacts made in America before the explorers got here, they’re called Pre-contact, as if everything after early […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: age, artifacts, baby boomer, black tar heroin, BOOMER, breaking point, Bronze Age, care, care age, caregiver, Death, decline and death, early exploration, elderly, elderly people, epochs and eras, explorers, face of meth, human, human side, Iron Age, pre-contact, sandwich generation, self care, Stone Age, world wars

HOSPICE, A DANGLING CONVERSATION

May 26, 2016 by David Gillaspie

The borders of our lives. Boomers have heard this more than once, others will hear it more later on: The closer people get to death, the more they drop their facade. There’s no one left to impress, no one left to pretend for, no one to juke. Toward the end it seems we get the […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: boomerpdx, dangling conversation, Death, end of life, hospice, hospice volunteer, kindness of strangers, veterans, war veterans

BOOMER MOMS KNOW

March 6, 2016 by David Gillaspie

If you love something, don’t set it free like boomer moms were set free. Boomer moms know all about love. Good love, bad love, boomer moms know the love cycle. First they were enchanted by the big strong men around them, the dads and uncles and neighbors. Then it was the young men who reminded […]

Filed Under: Boomer Up Tagged With: Baby Boomers, boomer dads, boomer mom, boomers, Death, death notice, ignorant rant, kid sports, millennial bashing, Mom, shiftless drifter

BABY BOOMER DEATH MARCH

November 3, 2015 by David Gillaspie

What Happens When That Music Starts? From the Washington Post: “In January, the CDC reported that an average of six people die every day because of alcohol poisoning and that 76 percent are ages 35 to 64. Three-quarters are men.” That party bus of life shifted gears when we weren’t looking. The baby boomer mantra […]

Filed Under: Toughen Up Tagged With: aging, alcohol, baby bomer, baby boomer death march, BOOMER, CDC, Center For Disease Control, Death, death march, medication, sex drugs rock and roll, suicide, Washington Post

HPV16 VACCINE IN CONSUMER REPORTS

PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS, pt2: FAMILY TRAUMA

PORTLAND WRITER NIGHT, @WILWRITE, ON WRITER RADIO

SUBURBAN DAD DEATH: THE TIMES, THE TOWNS, THE TEAMS

CIGARETTE SMOKE ‘EM IF YOU GOT ‘EM? DON’T DO IT

WRITE YOUR STORY SOONER THAN LATER

THE CARE AGE SANDWICH GENERATION

HOSPICE, A DANGLING CONVERSATION

BOOMER MOMS KNOW

BABY BOOMER DEATH MARCH

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