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LEARNING FROM WHERE YOU LIVE, PT.1: NORTH BEND

March 22, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Ask the North Bend question. In a reflective moment that soon passed, I asked my Dad which of us grew up in a rougher town. I felt certain he’d say his town, Ryderwood. Ryderwood was a logging camp town, a company town with a company store. The one thing all logging company towns […]

Filed Under: Buckle Up Tagged With: company store, company town, Coos Bay, education, family, loggers, logging camp, North Bend, North Bend Oregon, Oregon, Oregon Coast, Portland, ryderwood, ryderwood washington, Seattle

7 BILLION AND COUNTING? THAT’S A LOT OF BIRTH UNCONTROL

February 5, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Facing birth uncontrol with “Tell me what to do?” For starters, don’t do THAT! Personal uniqueness and individuality? Check. Fully armed with human rights? Check. Warm and dry and fed? Check. Ready to listen to the other 6,999,999,999 scream out to be like you? Sorry, man, you’re breaking up. You wanna repeat that? ‘Cause […]

Filed Under: Boomer Up Tagged With: America, birth control, birth uncontrol, boomerpdx, boundaries, Children, family, family of four, homeless, old man, old men, people, people power, population control, population studies, power, think local, vasectomy

BABY BOOMER ANTHOLOGY, A LIFE IN COMMON

May 20, 2016 by David Gillaspie

Every family has a man with so much backbone you’d think he has two of them. Such a man might have been injured on the job and took up another line of work. Maybe that man was a logger who broke his back in the woods and took up ranching. His biggest regret was missing […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: amazing grace, anthology, baby boomer, birth control, boomers, college, education, family, farm, Great Depression, Korea, logger, Marine Corps, mother's day, rancher, WWII

CARE COACHING TIPS

July 23, 2015 by David Gillaspie

When It Comes Down To Just You, Care Coaching Makes A Winner. Have you visited a loved one in a nursing home and looked around? What did you see going on in there? How do so many people arrive at this particular destination? Most people have a patented answer: “People need the best care available […]

Filed Under: Toughen Up Tagged With: aging, Baby Boomers, boomers, care, care coaching, elderly, family, Mom, nursing home

WILT’S SON FROM SOUTH EUGENE?

March 17, 2015 by David Gillaspie

Wilt The Chopper; Wilt’s Son An Axeman A recent Sports Illustrated cover showed a man calling himself Wilt’s son. Why on the cover and why Wilt Chamberlain? The Big Dipper is called the most transformative athlete in sports. At least in basketball. That ought to be enough. But he’s dead. Been dead a while. […]

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: aaron levi, adoption, big dipper, biggest loser, english birth mother, Eugene oregon, evander holyfield, family, family selfishness, mother's day, Oregon, parenting, shallow man, shawn kemp, shrinking man, son of wilt, Sports Illustrated, tiger woods, wilt chamberlain

LEARNING FROM WHERE YOU LIVE, PT.1: NORTH BEND

7 BILLION AND COUNTING? THAT’S A LOT OF BIRTH UNCONTROL

BABY BOOMER ANTHOLOGY, A LIFE IN COMMON

CARE COACHING TIPS

WILT’S SON FROM SOUTH EUGENE?

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LEARNING FROM WHERE YOU LIVE, PT.1: NORTH BEND

7 BILLION AND COUNTING? THAT’S A LOT OF BIRTH UNCONTROL

BABY BOOMER ANTHOLOGY, A LIFE IN COMMON

CARE COACHING TIPS

WILT’S SON FROM SOUTH EUGENE?

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