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WHAT SORT OF PARENT DID YOUR PARENTS WARN YOU ABOUT

December 19, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Did you become the sort of parent your parents warned you about? Are you surprised? We had stern warnings growing up about kids from unsupervised homes, which meant anyone different than us. Those were houses we weren’t allowed to visit. It was supposed to be a vaccine against hard partying high school nights. […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: adults, alcohol, booze, college, drinking, education, high school, intolerance, learning, new years, parent, school

Millennial History Break: WWII-era

August 22, 2018 by David Gillaspie

It’s been a long time since history delivered WWII. A long time to learn what happened, too. But not all are interested in the lessons of WWII, particularly the death camps where those deemed undesirable by the German authorities were warehoused until further notice. Further notice was death for six million […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: Auschwitz-Birkenau, baby boomer, Belzec, BOOMER, Chelmno, death camp, death camps, historian, history, history class, history lesson, holocaust, learning, Majdanek, millennial history, Nazi Germany, Oregon, Portland, Portland Oregon, Sobibor, Treblinka, WWII, wwii history

Life Long Learners Get Life Lesson Whether They Learn Or Not

July 25, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Life Lessons start early for writers, then they spend years figuring it out enough to make a joke, a poem, a short story, novella, novel. Maybe more, like a groundbreaking memoir. If it’s worth learning, it’s worth writing about to drill it in. Like most children of my generation, baby boomers, I had it made […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: #babyboomer, adult education, Baby Boomers, boomers, co-ed, education, generations, humanities, joke, learn, learning, life, life lesson, life long learner, memoir, millennial, millennials, novel, novella, poem, read, reading, school, short story, study, the humanities

SASQUATCH BIG RIG vs REAL LIFE RIG

May 31, 2018 by David Gillaspie

How does the Sasquatch Music Festival pull off a three day stand without the drama of conflict and violence? It is America, but no violence? How can that happen? The rest of the world needs to know and maybe they can tamp down the problems in their neighborhood. It starts with […]

Filed Under: Buckle Up Tagged With: big rig, conflict, education, law, learning, music festival, oregon washington, Portland, readable, reading, real life, sasquatch, Seattle, the gorge, Violence, writing

Japanese Exchange Student A Perfect Portland Fit

September 23, 2017 by David Gillaspie

What’s better than traveling to new places and meeting the locals? Being the locals and meeting travelers. A Japanese exchange student proved the rule this summer. With kids out of high school and college you’d think a couple of empty nest boomers would enjoy themselves with the usual things baby boomers get […]

Filed Under: Buckle Up Tagged With: Andeo International, Baby Boomers, boomers, education, japanese, japanese exchange student, japanese students, learning, Oregon, perfect portland, Portland, Portland Oregon

HOW TO NOT SEE THE EVIDENCE

August 17, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Stare and compare the evidence. That’s what a telecom pro called the first key to success. Is something wrong? Look at it. Look hard. Stare a hole in it, then compare it to normal. Normal works across the board. Abnormal, like the brain from Abby Normal in Young Frankenstein, doesn’t work for everyone. […]

Filed Under: BOOMER BLOGGER Tagged With: anger, education, evidence, lashing out, learning, millennials, misguided anger, mom and dad, parents, teams, young men

FEAR OF FAILURE COLLECTS REJECTS

August 15, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Fear of failure is the biggest concern in life. Across the board. For everyone whether they’re aware of it, or not. Heart failure in a hospital brings a Code Red, Code Blue, a code color that brings the crash cart cavalry to start humping and pumping a patient back to life from their flat […]

Filed Under: BOOMER BLOGGER Tagged With: approval, basic needs, education, failure, fear, fear of failure, john oliver, john travolta, learning, pulp fiction, quentin tarantino, recognition, story arc, taxes, uma thurman, work ethic, writer, writing

SMARTER, HEALTHIER, READER REACH OUT TODAY

June 10, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Reader reach out to Canada, China, and India? Breaking down walls that separate people? Good reading and good readers get a jump start. Education stops when readers stop reading and only listen to what they’re told. The inquiring mind searches further. It’s all part of training. If you hear something that doesn’t sound correct? Start […]

Filed Under: BOOMER BLOGGER Tagged With: America, american blogs, blog writer, blogger, boomerpdx, boomerpdx content, canadian blogs, chinese blogs, education, gateway blog, good ideas, good readers, healthier, indian blogs, learning, reader reach out, readers, smarter, writer, writing

WRITERS, WRITING CLASSES, ENGLISH DEPARTMENTS

January 14, 2017 by David Gillaspie

Best advice from writing classes? College freshman might change their major. More than once. But over and over? Relax, it happens. And it’s not pretty. Finding yourself in college is expensive. Even if Major Changer milks it long enough they finish with a degree others call worthless, as in, “what were you thinking?” That’s […]

Filed Under: BOOMER BLOGGER Tagged With: art history, Baby Boomers, boomers, college days, college freshman, content, education, English, english department, freshman year, grammar, history, learning, Sociology, spelling, structure, writers, writing, writing classes

PROFESSOR PUTIN WARMS UP FOR NEW PUPIL

December 17, 2016 by David Gillaspie

Check your class schedule for Professor Putin in the PE Department. If you’ve ever met Russians, and I have, then you know they are not all fans of Professor Putin. Like Americans, Russians live within the laws and customs of their land, and their leader. They live with their history, we live with ours. […]

Filed Under: Who's Up Tagged With: America, americans, dictator, education, government, learning, new student, obama, professor, professor putin, Putin, Russia, russians, student, trump, tyrant

WHAT SORT OF PARENT DID YOUR PARENTS WARN YOU ABOUT

Millennial History Break: WWII-era

Life Long Learners Get Life Lesson Whether They Learn Or Not

SASQUATCH BIG RIG vs REAL LIFE RIG

Japanese Exchange Student A Perfect Portland Fit

HOW TO NOT SEE THE EVIDENCE

FEAR OF FAILURE COLLECTS REJECTS

SMARTER, HEALTHIER, READER REACH OUT TODAY

WRITERS, WRITING CLASSES, ENGLISH DEPARTMENTS

PROFESSOR PUTIN WARMS UP FOR NEW PUPIL

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