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BIG MOMENTS CHANGE LIFE DIRECTION

February 5, 2019 by David Gillaspie

The first thought I have when I hear someone complain about their life going nowhere fast? ‘Then do something to change your life direction.’ Do I give advice on what to change? Oh, hell no. My advice to boomerpdx readers follows the same line of thinking: Don’t offer advice to someone complaining about their life […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: advice, family, friendship, helpful, history, kids, life

RISK MAKES THE REWARD ALL THE BETTER

December 14, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Looking forward to life after BIG LIFE events seems a little hollow. Less attention, more routine, but those damn feelings? When a normal day asks you to do something with it, what’s the answer? You’re still amped up on the big life event to risk taking on anything with other than full steam […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: calm, change, fear, life, man code, meditate, one percent, pray, read, risk

Hitchhiking Idaho With Stewart Abbe

August 15, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Forty five years is a long time. Just ask forty five year old men or women who are just getting used to what ‘middle aged’ means. Right around forty five people either start feeling old, or fighting old. Both are a path to futility and failure, but that’s what feelings and fighting […]

Filed Under: Buckle Up Tagged With: 1967, 1973, all-american, american boys, baby bomer travel, baby boomer, be true, BOOMER, feeling old, fighting old, freeway, hitchhiking idaho, I-84, I-86, Idaho, Lewis and Clark, life, Oregon, Oregon Trail, stewart abbe, summer of love, travel writer, travel writing, true love

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 […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: Death, died, Ernest Hemingway, facebook, Facebook friends, farm house, final out, friends, girlfriends, Hemingway, lennox, lennox lancers, life, life transitions, Los Angeles, memorial, memorial service, pain, passed away, service, the end, transitions, twitter

Health Writing? Start With Cancer And Drill Down

July 27, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Health writing is about bringing hope to the afflicted. Cancer writing, not so much. One is about the future and the steps to make it better. The other is layered with dread. One is about improving conditions, about personal bests, about gains; the other is layered with dread. Health writing brings nutrition, […]

Filed Under: Toughen Up Tagged With: audience, bigger arms, cancer, cancer writer, cancer writing, cardiovascular endurance, coach, coach writer, experience, fitness, health writer, health writing, life, live life, marijuana, medical marijuana, nutrition, personal experience, read, reader, reading, reading audience, story, toned abs, writing, writing coach

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

LIFE MARATHON ENDS EARLY FOR QUITTERS

July 3, 2018 by David Gillaspie

You’ve heard it, I’ve heard it, we’ve both felt it. We’re tired and don’t know why, because a life marathon doesn’t have a finish line. Eating right, getting rest, and still tired. Is it a baby boomer lament, or just the way it is? Maybe it’s time to sit it out for the […]

Filed Under: BOOMER YEARS Tagged With: baby boomer, Baby Boomers, BOOMER, boomers, hardships, leaders, leadership, life, life marathon, marathon, persistence, resist, running

LIFE QUESTIONS ANSWERED BY FLATTENED CHICKEN

May 8, 2018 by David Gillaspie

To flatten a chicken use a pair of meat scissors and cut along one side of the backbone from the neck to the parson’s nose. Open up the bloody carcass and do the same on the other side. Use scissors instead of a knife to avoid the ‘blade slipped on a rib […]

Filed Under: BOOMER BLOGGER Tagged With: backbone, behavior, daddy's girl, flattened chicken, future behavior, government, leadership, life, life problems, momma's boy, past behavior, Pink Floyd, plant based diet, president, problems, the wall, transplant

LIFE STAGES WITH ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS

April 3, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Instead of death and dying, use the same grief progression for living and life stages. It fits just as well, after all no one said life was easy. Sometimes living is a downer until we find something to live for. Life stages go beyond the chronographic scale, like the Terrible Twenties, the […]

Filed Under: Toughen Up Tagged With: acceptance, anger, arnold, back story, bargaining, Death, denial, depressed, depression, dwayne johnson, dying, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, life, life stages, living, Millenials, mood swing, sly stallone, suicide, the rock

Life Plan? What To Do When Life Moves On

September 12, 2017 by David Gillaspie

If I read a book I turn the page. That’s how it works with book reading. Turn the page, then another and another until there’s no more pages. Call that story a page turner. A life plan when life moves on without you feels the same. Maybe you didn’t turn the page, but […]

Filed Under: BOOMER BLOGGER Tagged With: financial plan, life, life plan, literature, look homeward angel, Pat Conroy, Thomas Wolfe, turn the page

BIG MOMENTS CHANGE LIFE DIRECTION

RISK MAKES THE REWARD ALL THE BETTER

Hitchhiking Idaho With Stewart Abbe

Auntie Pammy Leaves Legacy Of Lennox Lancer Love

Health Writing? Start With Cancer And Drill Down

Life Long Learners Get Life Lesson Whether They Learn Or Not

LIFE MARATHON ENDS EARLY FOR QUITTERS

LIFE QUESTIONS ANSWERED BY FLATTENED CHICKEN

LIFE STAGES WITH ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS

Life Plan? What To Do When Life Moves On

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