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LONELY PEOPLE: FROM HEMINGWAY TO AMERICA

October 27, 2025 by David Gillaspie

The answer: lonely people. The question: What does the band America have in common with Ernest Hemingway? Their bond comes from both ends of male adulthood, young man to old man. One sang about them, the other wrote about them. By now baby boomers are both.

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HEALTHY LIFESTYLE? A REVIEW

October 3, 2024 by David Gillaspie

A healthy lifestyle doesn’t start after you recover from a dreaded disease. Some people take illness as a reminder to step up their health routine, some ignore the whole thing. Which one is the right response? Both work, just one better than the other. But there’s that other part.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: aging, baby boomer, BOOMER, cancer, continuing education, diabetes, education, elderly, Ernest Hemingway, food aversion, fuzz check, green peppers, health, healthy, healthy aging, healthy lifestyle, healthy people, heart disease, lifestyle, mental health, mental health awareness, obesity, suffering

PERFORMANCE PRESSURE SELF INFLICTED

April 29, 2024 by David Gillaspie

Performance pressure starts with doubt. Will you be good enough? Have you trained to win? Can you do it? These are the same questions asked when people decide to get married.

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FADING AWAY? NOT WHEN LOVE IS LOVE

October 17, 2022 by David Gillaspie

Fading away is a constant marvel with aging baby boomers. We grew up worried about turning into our moms and dads. Now we hope we’re decent enough to resemble our grandparents. Who’da thunk it?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: blogger, BOOMER, boomer express, boomerpdx, Death, drinking, dying, Ernest Hemingway, fading away, listener, listening, love is love, married, need help

LIFE STORIES: WHEN PERSONAL HISTORY IS NOT ENOUGH

April 10, 2021 by David Gillaspie

Life stories come in every form and flavor from hot to cold, bland to sassy, truthful to made up. Tell the same stories long enough to the same people and they start to wonder: “How many times have we heard this stuff?” “Do they know they’ve told the same story over and over?” If you’ve […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: english majors, Ernest Hemingway, fiction writer, history, ken burns, life stories, personal history, stories, writing life

HEMINGWAY LIFE STORY BEST OF ALL TIME

April 7, 2021 by David Gillaspie

The Hemingway life story by Ken Burns is a sure sign, but of what? That he grew up in what amounts to a fundamentalist family? With a mother that logged all of her sacrifices for him? Then held it against him? Add a father with well defined ideas on how to behave. And Ernest disappointed […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway, ken burns, life work, tc bpyle, Thomas Wolfe, travel, twitter, writer, writers, wwi

EMPATHY ADDICTION: IT HURTS WHEN I FEEL

January 23, 2020 by David Gillaspie

Is empathy addiction a call to action every time you feel something so intensely you have to do something? “That could’ve been me; I’ll make sure it never happens again.”

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Auntie Pammy Leaves Legacy Of Lennox Lancer Love

August 2, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Life transitions can mean so many things. After all other guesses run out, the final life transition is the end. Auntie Pammy’s life ended, but she left a legacy of love that’s hard to ignore. From the time the news went out I thought of the a meme that said, “Write about what […]

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BLOGGING FOR ASPIRING WRITERS

March 24, 2016 by David Gillaspie

The difference between an aspiring writer and a blogger? Story. A recent boomerpdx reader sent this comment about aspiring writers: Superb blog! Do you have any suggestions for aspiring writers? I’m planning to start my own blog soon but I’m a little lost on everything. Would you recommend starting with a free platform like WordPress […]

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